VENEZUELA

DISTRICT OF MONAGAS

4 M E AND A LITTLE S OF ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO

CENOMANIAN STAGE

UPPERMOST GALLIC SUBEPOCH-TURONIAN STAGE

LOWER SENONIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER TO MIDDLE GULF EPOCH

LATE CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1905

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

Incertae sedis

non Alzadasaurus, *A. tropicus