page_title: Brachauchenius
section_title: Classification
hierarchical_section_title: Brachauchenius / Classification
caption_attribution_description: Brachauchenius lucasi perusing a generic hesperornithiform bird.
context_page_description: Brachauchenius is an extinct genus of pliosaurid that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous.
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: B. lucasi pursuing a hesperornithiform bird
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