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iCimoliasauridae Fossil range: Cretaceous
Conservation status
Extinct (fossil) </div>
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Plesiosauria Suborder: Plesiosauroidea Family: Cimoliasauridae Persson, 1960
Genera
Aristonectes</br> Cimoliasaurus</br> Scanisaurus</br>

Cimoliasauridae is a poorly known family of small and aberrant plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous.

They were characterized by a relatively larger head and shorter neck than the Plesiosauridae and Elasmosauridae. Teeth resemble those of the plesiosauridae. The group is known only from scanty and fragmentary remains.

[edit] References

• Persson, Per Ove, 1960, Lower Cretaceous plesiosaurians (Rept.) from Australia. Lunds Unveristets Arsskrift, 56 (12), 12-23