Dolichosaurus

Dolichosaurus Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Scleroglossa
Family:	Dolichosauridae
Genus:	Dolichosaurus Owen, 1850
Species
D. longicollis Owen, 1850 (type)

Dolichosaurus is an extinct genus of marine squamate of the Upper Cretaceous Cenomanian chalk deposits of England. Sister-group relationships between coniasaurs, dolichosaurs, Aigialosauridae and Mosasauridae are an unresolved polytomy. The paleobiology of Dolichosaurus is reconstructed as similar to coniasaurs, nothosaurs, and modern sea snakes.

External links

• BIOONE Online Journals - ON THE AQUATIC SQUAMATE DOLICHOSAURUS LONGICOLLIS

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