Back Leptocleidus Catalan Leptocleidus Spanish Leptocleidus French Leptocleidus Galician לפטוקלידוס HE Leptocleidus Italian レプトクレイドゥス Japanese Leptocleidus Dutch Leptocleidus Occitan Leptoklid Polish
| Leptocleidus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Leptocleididae |
| Genus: | †Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922 |
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Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur,[1] belonging to the family Leptocleididae.[2] It was a small plesiosaur, measuring only up to 3 m (9.8 ft).[3]
- ^ Ketchum, H. F.; Benson, R. B. J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews. 85 (2): 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID 20002391. S2CID 12193439.
- ^ Smith AS, Dyke GJ. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften e-published 2008.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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