Editing Pliosauroidea (section)

===Taxonomy===
[[Image:Macroplata BW.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Macroplata]]'']]
[[File:Pliosaurus restoration 2019.jpg|thumb|''[[Pliosaurus]]'']]
[[Image:Simolestes1DB.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Simolestes|Simolestes vorax]]'']]
[[Image:Attenborosaurus BW.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Attenborosaurus]]'']]
The taxonomy presented here is mainly based on the plesiosaur cladistic analysis proposed by Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson, 2011 unless otherwise noted.<ref name=Marmornectes>{{cite journal |year=2011 |title=A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids |journal=Special Papers in Palaeontology |volume=86 |pages=109–129 |author=Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson }}</ref>

*Suborder '''Pliosauroidea'''
** ''[[Eurysaurus]]''?
** ''[[Sinopliosaurus]]''?
**Family '''[[Rhomaleosauridae]]'''
*** ''[[Archaeonectrus]]''
*** ''[[Bishanopliosaurus]]''?
*** ''[[Borealonectes]]''<ref name=SW08>{{cite journal |last=Sato |first=Tamaki |author2=Xiao-Chun Wu  |year=2008 |title=A new Jurassic pliosaur from Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=303–320 |doi=10.1139/E08-003 |bibcode=2008CaJES..45..303S |hdl=2309/95302 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
*** ''[[Eurycleidus]]''
*** ''[[Macroplata]]''
*** ''[[Maresaurus]]''
*** ''[[Meyerasaurus]]''
*** ''[[Rhomaleosaurus]]''
*** ''[[Sthenarosaurus]]''<ref name=SmithDyke08>{{Cite journal |author=Adam S. Smith and Gareth J. Dyke |year=2008 |title=The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur ''Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni'': implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics |url=http://www.plesiosauria.com/pdf/smith&dyke_2008.pdf |journal=Naturwissenschaften |volume=95 |issue= 10|pages=975–980 |doi=10.1007/s00114-008-0402-z |pmid=18523747 |bibcode=2008NW.....95..975S |s2cid=12528732 }}</ref>
*** ''[[Yuzhoupliosaurus]]''?
**Family '''[[Pliosauridae]]'''
*** ''[[Anguanax]]''
*** ''[[Attenborosaurus]]''
*** ''[[Eardasaurus]]''
*** ''[[Gallardosaurus]]''<ref name="Zulma Gasparini">{{cite journal |last=Gasparini |first=Zulma |year=2009 |title=A New Oxfordian Pliosaurid (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) in the Caribbean Seaway |url=http://www.redciencia.cu/cdorigen/arca/paper/plio2009.pdf |journal=Palaeontology |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=661–669 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00871.x |bibcode=2009Palgy..52..661G |s2cid=55353949 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716060129/http://www.redciencia.cu/cdorigen/arca/paper/plio2009.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 }}</ref>
*** ''[[Hauffiosaurus]]''
*** ''[[Liopleurodon]]''
*** ''[[Marmornectes]]''
*** ''[[Megalneusaurus]]'' 
*** ''[[Pachycostasaurus]]''
*** ''[[Peloneustes]]''
*** ''[[Pliosaurus]]'' 
*** ''[[Rhaeticosaurus]]''
*** ''[[Simolestes]]''
*** ''[[Thalassiodracon]]''
***Subfamily '''Brachaucheninae'''
**** ''[[Brachauchenius]]''
**** ''[[Kronosaurus]]''
**** ''[[Luskhan]]''
**** ''[[Makhaira rossica|Makhaira]]''
**** ''[[Megacephalosaurus]]''
**** ''[[Monquirasaurus]]''
**** ''[[Polyptychodon]]''
**** ''[[Sachicasaurus]]'' 
**** ''[[Stenorhynchosaurus]]''