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Brancasaurus
Taxonomy
Brancasaurus was named by Wegner (1914) [Sepkoski's age data: K Berr K l Sepkoski's reference number: 2]. Its type is Brancasaurus brancai.
It was assigned to Brancasauridae by White (1940); to Elasmosaurinae by Welles (1962); to Elasmosauridae by Wegner (1914), Persson (1963), Carroll (1988), Carpenter (1999) and O'Keefe (2001); to Plesiosauria by Sepkoski (2002) and Otero et al. (2012); to Leptocleidia by Benson et al. (2013); and to Leptocleididae by Ketchum and Benson (2010), Hampe (2013), Benson et al. (2013) and Benson and Druckenmiller (2014).
It was assigned to Brancasauridae by White (1940); to Elasmosaurinae by Welles (1962); to Elasmosauridae by Wegner (1914), Persson (1963), Carroll (1988), Carpenter (1999) and O'Keefe (2001); to Plesiosauria by Sepkoski (2002) and Otero et al. (2012); to Leptocleidia by Benson et al. (2013); and to Leptocleididae by Ketchum and Benson (2010), Hampe (2013), Benson et al. (2013) and Benson and Druckenmiller (2014).
Species
B. brancai (type species)
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1914 | Brancasaurus Wegner |
1940 | Brancasaurus White p. 461 |
1962 | Brancasaurus Welles pp. 4 & 41-44 |
1963 | Brancasaurus Persson p. 17 |
1988 | Brancasaurus Carroll |
1999 | Brancasaurus Carpenter p. 168 fig. 15 |
2001 | Brancasaurus O'Keefe p. 19 fig. 20 |
2002 | Brancasaurus Sepkoski |
2010 | Brancasaurus Ketchum and Benson p. 15 |
2012 | Brancasaurus Otero et al. |
2013 | Brancasaurus Benson et al. |
2013 | Brancasaurus Benson et al. fig. 4 |
2013 | Brancasaurus Hampe fig. 9 |
2014 | Brancasaurus Benson and Druckenmiller figs. 2-3 |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available