Pistosauroidea
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pistosauroidea-297-2203837
title:
Pistosauroidea
text:
Pistosauroidea is a group of marine reptiles within the superorder Sauropterygia that first appeared in the latter part of the Early Triassic and were the ancestors of plesiosaurs. Pistosauroids are rare in Triassic marine assemblages, and are represented by only a few fossils from central Europe, the United States, and China. Recent phylogenetic analyses consider the Triassic pistosauroids to be a paraphyletic grouping, meaning that they do not form a true clade. Plesiosauria is now placed with
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encyclopedia
description:
Extinct clade of reptiles
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistosauroidea
date created:
date modified:
2023-05-06T22:41:50Z
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13
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