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STRATESAURUS
(strayt-e-sore-us)
meaning: "Strate lizard"
Stratesaurus
Named By: Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans & Patrick S. Druckenmiller in 2012
Time Period: Early Jurassic, 199.6-198 Ma
Location: England - Blue Lias Formation
Size: Skull 18 centimetres long
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Rhomaleosauridae |
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Stratesaurus is an extinct genus of small-bodied rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur known from the Early Jurassic period (most likely earliest Hettangian stage) of the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, S. taylori.

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