Seeleyosaurus

Seeleyosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
Cast of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris fossil with reconstructed parts based on the holotype
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Microcleididae
Genus: Seeleyosaurus
White, 1940
Type species
Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris
(Dames, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Microcleidus guilelmi imperatoris Menner, 1992
  • Plesiosaurus guilelmi imperatoris Fraas, 1910 non Dames, 1895
  • Plesiosaurus imperatoris guilelmi Menner, 1992
  • Plesiosaurus guilelmiimperatoris Dames, 1895
  • Seeleyosaurus holzmadensis White, 1940

Seeleyosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from Germany and possibly also Russia.

Two species were known: the type, S. guilelmiimperatoris, and the now obsolete species S. holzmadensis, which has since been absorbed into S. guilelmiimperatoris.