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Pliosaurus grossouvrei

Osteichthyes - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Taxonomy
Liopleurodon grossouvrei was named by Sauvage (1873). Its type specimen is École des Mines, Paris, a tooth, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Pliosaurus grossouvrei by Lydekker (1889).

Entered
by H. Street (authorized by M. Carrano) on 2010-12-16; modified by M. Carrano on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1873Liopleurodon grossouvrei Sauvage p. 379 figs. Pl. VII, fig. 2
1889Pliosaurus grossouvrei Lydekker p. 130 fig. 40

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
classOsteichthyes
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlesiosauriade Blainville 1835
superfamilyPliosauroideaWelles 1943
familyPliosauridaeSeeley 1874
—Thalassophonea
genusPliosaurus()
speciesgrossouvrei()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Pliosaurus grossouvrei Sauvage 1873
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available