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Phantomosaurus
Taxonomy
Phantomosaurus was named by Maisch and Matzke (2000). It is not extant.
It was assigned to Merriamosauriformes by McGowan and Motani (2003); and to Cymbospondylidae by Maisch and Matzke (2000), Maisch and Matzke (2006) and Maisch (2010).
It was assigned to Merriamosauriformes by McGowan and Motani (2003); and to Cymbospondylidae by Maisch and Matzke (2000), Maisch and Matzke (2006) and Maisch (2010).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2000 | Phantomosaurus Maisch and Matzke p. 65 |
| 2003 | Phantomosaurus McGowan and Motani |
| 2006 | Phantomosaurus Maisch and Matzke p. 598 |
| 2010 | Phantomosaurus Maisch |
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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.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke 2000 | "Large ichthyosaur, skull length exceeds 50 cm, basioccipital condyle saddle shaped, opisthotic tightly sutured to basioccipital, supernumary paired ossifications dorsal to supraoccipital, articular exposed on outside of lower jaw posterior to surangular, anterior vertebral centra extremely amphicoelous, with ventrolateral keels, zygapophyses very estensive and totally horizontal, hindfin with very long and slender femur, tibia and fibula." |
Measurements
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