ENGLAND
LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY
WILMCOTE
BARROW-ON-SOAR
LOWER LIASSIC
SINEMURIAN STAGE
MIDDLE LIAS EPOCH
EARLY JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUBLEGION: DINOSAUROMORPHA BENTON & NORMAN IN BENTON, 1985
INFRALEGION: DINOSAURIFORMES NOVAS, 1992
SUPERCOHORT: DINOSAURIA OWEN, 1842
COHORT: THEROPODA EMEND MARSH, 1881
AVEPODA PAUL, 2002
SUPERORDER: NEOTHEROPODA BAKKER, 1986
Incertae sedis
*Sarcosaurus woodi
= Magnosaurus woodi
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ENGLAND
LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY
BARROW UPON SOAR
BOTTOM FLOOR LIMESTONE
SINEMURIAN STAGE
LIAS EPOCH
EARLY JURASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945
SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860
GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994
ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874
Family: THAUMATOSAURIDAE Romer, 1956
Genus nova = Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus
= Plesiosaurus megacephalus
= Plesiosaurus megacephalus
= Eurycleidus megacephalus = Atychodracon megacephalus