Poekilopleuron bucklandii Eudes-Deslongchamps 1837 (tetanuran theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda - Megalosauridae

Alternative combinations: Megalosaurus (Poekilopleuron) bucklandi, Poecilopleuron bucklandi, Poecilopleurum bucklandii, Poekilopleuron bucklandi, Poicilopleuron bucklandi, Poikilopleuron bucklandi, Poikilopleuron bucklandii

Synonyms: Megalosaurus poekilopleuron Huene 1923 [objective synonym], Megalosaurus poikilopleuron Huene 1923 [objective synonym]

Full reference: J. A. Eudes-Deslongchamps. 1837. Mémoire sur le Poekilopleuron bucklandi, Grande Saurien Fossile, Intermédiare entre les Crocodiles et les Lézards, Découvert dans les Carrières de la Maladrerie, près Caen, au Mois de Juillet 1835 [Memoir on the Poekilopleuron bucklandi, a Great Fossil Saurian, Intermediate between Crocodiles and Lizards, Discovered in the Maladrerie Quarries, near Caen, in July 1835]. 1-114

Belongs to Poekilopleuron according to M. T. Carrano et al. 2012

See also Allain 2005, Allain and Chure 2002, Bakker et al. 1992, Bigot and Cardinet 1938, Brignon 2018, Buffetaut 1983, Buffetaut 1997, Buffetaut et al. 1991, Buffetaut et al. 1993, Cope 1870, Currie and Padian 1997, Eudes-Deslongchamps 1837, Eudes-Deslongchamps 1838, Fitzinger 1843, Galton and Knoll 2006, Gand et al. 2018, Gervais 1852, Gervais 1853, Gervais 1859, Holtz et al. 2004, Huene 1915, Huene 1923, Huene 1926, Huene 1926, Hulke 1882, Kuhn 1939, Lapparent 1967, Leidy 1870, Leidy 1873, Lydekker 1888, Mansel-Pleydell 1888, Mantell 1854, Molnar 1980, Molnar et al. 1996, Molnar and Pledge 1980, Newton 1889, Owen 1841, Owen 1842, Owen 1854, Paul 1988, Piveteau 1923, Rauhut 2003, Rauhut et al. 2016, Razzolini et al. 2016, Rioult 1978, Sauvage 1880, Sauvage 1880, Steel 1970, Stromer 1915, Woodward and Sherborn 1890 and Wu et al. 2009

Sister taxon: Poecilopleuron minor

Type specimens:

  • Poekilopleuron bucklandii: Muséum du Caen (destroyed), a set of postcrania. Its type locality is La Maladrerie quarry, Caen, which is in a Bathonian marine limestone in the Calcaires de Caen Formation of France.
  • Megalosaurus poikilopleuron:

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at La Maladrerie quarry, Caen

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