†Adelosaurus huxleyi Hancock and Howse 1870 (diapsid)
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Alternative combination: Protorosaurus huxleyi
Full reference: A. Hancock and R. Howse. 1870. On Proterosaurus speneri, von Meyer, and a new species, Proterosaurus huxleyi, from the Marl-Slate of Midderidge, Durham. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 26(12):565-572
Belongs to Adelosaurus according to S. E. Evans 1988
See also Hancock and Howse 1870 and Watson 1914
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NEWHM G.26.49, a partial skeleton (skull and tail missing). Its type locality is Middridge, Durham, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal claystone in the Marl Slate Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Middridge, Durham
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