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TRICLEIDUS
(tro-kly-dus)
meaning: "Three collarbone"
Tricleidus
Named By: Andrews in 1909
Time Period: Middle Jurassic, Callovian
Location: England and Svalbard
Size: Unavailable
Diet: Piscivore
Fossil(s): Skull and partial post cranial remains
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Plesiosauroidea | Cryptoclididae |
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Tricleidus is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid plesiosaur known from only specimen (BMNH R3539) from the middle Jurassic of United Kingdom. It was first named by Andrews in 1909 and the type species is Tricleidus seeleyi.

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