GANZA ANTICLINE

NORTH OF CAPE GANZA

ISLAND OF WILCZEK LAND

FRANZ JOSEF LAND

WILCZEK FORMATION

LOWER-MIDDLE NORIAN STAGE

LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH

LATE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835

INFRAORDER: PLESIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA

EUPLESIOSAURIA O’KEEFE, 2001

Superfamily: ELASMOSAUROIDEA nova

Family: ELASMOSAURIDAE Cope, 1869

*Alexeyisaurus karnoushenkoi

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