page_title: Kronosaurus
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Kronosaurus / Classification
caption_attribution_description: bos_harvard_museum_of_natural_history
context_page_description: Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur. With an estimated length of 9 to 10.9 meters, it was among the largest pliosaurs, and is named after the leader of the Greek Titans, Kronos. It lived in the Early Cretaceous period. Fossil material has been recovered from the Toolebuc Formation and Wallumbilla Formations of Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, and from the upper Paja Formation in Boyacá, Colombia, and assigned to two species.
context_section_description: The cladogram below follows a 2011 analysis by paleontologists Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson, and reduced to genera only.
caption: Reconstructed skull of the Harvard specimen
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