Hauffiosaurus
Holotype (Hauff Uncatalogued) of Hauffiosaurus zanoni as preserved in ventral view. Scale bar = 1 m. From Vincent (2011)
Hauffiosaurus is a basal pliosaurid known from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of the UK and Germany. Hauffiosaurus is a medium to large sized plesiosaur (H. zanoni = 3.4 m, H. tomistomimus, 4.23 m, H. longirostris = 4.83 m) (Smith and Lomax 2019), with a relatively long neck for a pliosaur, and an…