Category:Microcleidus

**Microcleidus**
	genus of reptiles (fossil)
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Instance of	fossil taxon;
Location of discovery	Posidonia Shale; alum shale; France;
Start time	c. 183rd millennium BC;
End time	176th millennium BC;
Length	3 m;
Common name
	中文: 小锁龙属;
Taxonomy
Phylum	Chordata
Subphylum	Vertebrata
Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
Megaclass	Osteichthyes
Superclass	Sarcopterygii
Order	Eotetrapodiformes
Infraclass	Elpistostegalia
Superclass	Tetrapoda
Class	Reptilia
Infraclass	Lepidosauromorpha
Superorder	Sauropterygia
Order	Eosauropterygia
Order	Plesiosauria
Superfamily	Plesiosauroidea
Family	Microcleididae
Genus	Microcleidus
Taxon author	D. M. S. Watson, 1909
Authority file
	Q2462673; Fossilworks taxon ID: 36490; GBIF taxon ID: 4823611; IRMNG ID: 1423056
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NOTE: According to entries in the Paleobiology Database / Fossilworks, see here and here it seems that Hydrorion is a junior synonym of Microcleidus because the only assigned species Hydrorion brachypterygius has been reassigned to Microcleidus as Microcleidus brachypterygius.

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Ordo: Plesiosauria • Subordo: Plesiosauroidea • Familia: Elasmosauridae • Genus: Microcleidus