Discosaurus
| Discosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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| Holotype vertebrae of D. vestutus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Suborder: | †Pliosauroidea |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Brachaucheninae |
| Genus: | †Discosaurus Leidy, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| †Discosaurus vestutus Leidy, 1851
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Discosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Santonian of Alabama and Mississippi. One species is known, which is D. vestutus.