In Depth
Tricleidus is but one of many cryptoclidid plesiosaurs active in European waters during the Jurassic, although it is not as well-known as the type genus of this group, Cryptoclidus. The type species name T. seeleyi is in honour of the British palaeontologist Harry Govier Seeley. Another species based upon American fossils once attributed to the genus as Tricleidus laramiensis (renamed from Cimoliasaurus laramiensis) is now known as the genus Tatenectes.
Further Reading
– On some new Plesiosauria from the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. – Annals And Magazine of Natural History 4:418-429. – C. W. Andrews – 1909.
