though Shokawa, Khurendukhosaurus and Hyphalosaurus possess long plesiosaur like necks. The grouping of "non-neochoristoderes" is paraphyletic (not containing all descendants of a common ancestor), as the lizard-like bodyform represents the ancestral morphology of the group.

Skeletal anatomy

According to Matsumoto and colleagues (2019), choristoderes

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