Full reference: T. Hawkins. 1834. Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth vi-51
Belongs to Plesiosaurus according to T. Hawkins 1834
See also Benson et al. 2011, Delair 1960, Lydekker 1889 and Storrs and Taylor 1996
Sister taxa: Plesiosaurus bavaricus, Plesiosaurus bitractensis, Plesiosaurus carinatus, Plesiosaurus cliduchus, Plesiosaurus coelospondylus, Plesiosaurus costatus, Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, Plesiosaurus elasmosaurus, Plesiosaurus exarsostinus, Plesiosaurus grandis, Plesiosaurus hesternus, Plesiosaurus houzeaui, Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, Plesiosaurus macrodeirus, Plesiosaurus mexicanus, Plesiosaurus nitidus, Plesiosaurus platydeirus, Plesiosaurus priscus, Plesiosaurus rostratus, Plesiosaurus subconcavus, Plesiosaurus subtrigonus, Plesiosaurus trigonus
Type specimen: BMNH 2018*, a skeleton (alsmot complete skeleton missing distal portions of some limbs)
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Plesiosaurus tessarestarsostinus in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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