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    a "Leptocleidus sp.", was named as a separate genus Vectocleidus in 2012. With large clavicles and interclavicle and small scapulae, Leptocleidus resembled...
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    as "all taxa more closely related to Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis or Meyerasaurus victor". Rhomaleosauridae...
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    as "all taxa more closely related to Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis or Meyerasaurus victor". The family...
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    Leptocleidia is a node-based taxon which was defined by Ketchum and Benson as "Leptocleidus superstes, Polycotylus latipinnis, their most recent common ancestor...
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    Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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    Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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    Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922". Zootaxa. 1863: 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1863.1.1....
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    Russell moved the Polycotylidae back into the Pliosauroidea, and placed Leptocleidus as their sister group in the newly named Leptocleidoidea; Adam Smith...
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    Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922 (PDF). Vol. 1863. Zootaxa. pp. 1–120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
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    Albian stage). They had small bodies with small heads and short necks. Leptocleidus and Umoonasaurus had round bodies and triangle-shaped heads. Leptocleidids...
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