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KIMMEROSAURUS
(kim-mer-oh-sore-us)
meaning: "Kimmeridge lizard"
Named By: Brown in 1981
Time Period: 150.8-145.5 Ma Late Jurassic, Tithonian
Location: England, Dorset - Kimmeridge Clay
Size: Uncertain due to incomplete fossil material
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Skull and cervical (neck) vertebrae
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Plesiosauroidea | Cryptoclididae |
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Kimmerosaurus ("lizard from Kimmeridge") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the family Cryptoclididae, closely related to Tatenectes.

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