Alternative combinations: Cetiosaurus conybeari, Pelorosaurus conybearei
Full reference: A. G. Melville. 1849. Notes on the vertebral column of the Iguanodon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 139:285-300
Belongs to Pelorosaurus according to P. Upchurch et al. 2004
See also Blows 1995, Blows 1998, Cheevely and Chapman 1992, Gervais 1852, Gervais 1859, Huene 1927, Lydekker 1888, Lydekker 1889, Lydekker 1893, Lydekker 1893, Mantell 1850, Mantell 1850, Mantell 1851, Mantell 1851, Mantell 1852, McIntosh 1990, Melville 1849, Naish and Martill 2001, Naish and Martill 2007, Newton 1889, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1928, Norman 1997, Owen 1859, Pictet 1853, Royo-Torres et al. 2006, Sauvage 1900, Sauvage 1902, Steel 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Van Den Broeck 1900 and Woodward and Sherborn 1890
Sister taxon: Pelorosaurus praecursor
Type specimen: BMNH 28626, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Cuckfield Quarry, Tilgate, which is in a Valanginian/Hauterivian terrestrial sandstone in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Cuckfield Quarry, Tilgate
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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