Picrocleidus Temporal range: Middle Jurassic |
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Fossils | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | † |
Genus: |
†Picrocleidus Seeley, 1892 |
Type species | |
†Picrocleidus beloclis Seeley, 1892 |
Picrocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur. It is known only from the type species P. beloclis from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian stage) of the United Kingdom.