Newly named plesiosaurs

Refer to article on these carnivorous aquatic reptiles

Plesiosaur

Plesiosauroidea is an extinct clade of carnivorous plesiosaur marine reptiles. Plesiosauroids, are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods...

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Plesiosaurs (sensu Plesiosauroidea) appeared at the start of the Jurassic Period, and thrived until the K-T extinction, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. While they were Mesozoic

Mesozoic

The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...

 diapsid

Diapsid

Diapsids are a group of reptiles that developed two holes in each side of their skulls, about 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. Living diapsids are extremely diverse, and include all crocodiles, lizards, snakes, and tuatara...

 reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs, they were not dinosaurs.

New taxa

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Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Ornithocephalus Ornithocephalus The name Ornithocephalus may refer either to* a genus of orchid or* an obsolete name once applied to pterosaur specimens now classified as Pterodactylus and Rhamphorhynchus....	Jr. synonym.	von Sömmering		Junior synonym of Pterodactylus Pterodactylus Pterodactylus is a genus of pterosaurs, whose members are popularly known as pterodactyls. It was the first to be named and identified as a flying reptile... .

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