Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Alternative combinations: Plesiosaurus philarchus, Thaumatosaurus philarchus
Full reference: H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge 1-143
Belongs to Peloneustes according to H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson 2011
See also Andrews 1913, Araujo et al. 2008, Lydekker 1889, Lydekker 1889, O'Keefe 2001, Seeley 1869, Swinton 1934 and Tarlo 1960
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: CAMSM J.46913, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Peterborough area, Porter Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (2 collections), the United Kingdom (9)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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