Back Discosaurus Spanish دیسکوسور FA Discosaurus French Discosaurus Dutch Discosaurus VI 盘椎龙属 Chinese
| Discosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Holotype vertebrae of D. vestutus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Brachaucheninae |
| Genus: | †Discosaurus Leidy, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| †Discosaurus vetustus Leidy, 1851
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Discosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Santonian of Alabama and Mississippi.[1] One species is known, which is D. vestutus.
- ^ Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America, Issue 179 by Oliver Perry Hay