Microcleidus
In Depth With up to forty cervical vertebrae, Microcleidus had a proportionately longer neck than other plesiosaurs. This longer neck has in the past seen Microcleidus treated as an elasmosaurid (the group of long necked plesiosaurs like Elasmosaurus), although Microcleidus has also been considered to be a cryptoclidid (the group established around Cryptoclidus). On top … Read more