Pliosauridae is a family of plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the Latest Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous (Rhaetian to Turonian stages) of Australia...

and smaller heads. They originally included only members of the family Pliosauridae, of the order Plesiosauria, but several other genera and families are...

when Longman described the taxon in 1924, he assigned it to the family Pliosauridae based on multiple anatomical features, an affiliation which will be mainly...

present in all large pliosaurids, and thus possibly paedomorphic within Pliosauridae. Knutsen et al. (2012) diagnosed the species based on a unique combination...

Liopleurodon belongs to clade Thalassophonea, a short necked clade within the Pliosauridae, a family of plesiosaurs, thalassophoneans ranged from the Middle Jurassic...

(tha-LAS-ee-o-DRAY-kon) is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid from the Pliosauridae that was alive during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (Rhaetian-Hettangian)...

Plesiosaurus. Its specific name means "with a short neck". Later, the Pliosauridae were recognised as having a morphology fundamentally different from the...

when it died. Gallardosaurus was a pliosaurid, a member of the family Pliosauridae, a group of short-necked reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era...

Class: Reptilia Superorder: †Sauropterygia Order: †Plesiosauria Family: †Pliosauridae Clade: †Thalassophonea Benson & Druckenmiller, 2013 Subgroups †Gallardosaurus...

three groups in which plesiosaurs were classified, the others being the Pliosauridae and Plesiosauridae (sometimes merged into one group). Charles Andrews...