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Aigialosaurus bucchichi
Taxonomy
Opetiosaurus bucchichi was named by Kornhuber (1901). Its type specimen is Vienna museum specimen, a skeleton (Skeleton lacking part of tail), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lesina (Universitat Wien NHMW collection), which is in a Cenomanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Starigrad Limestone Formation of Croatia.
It was synonymized subjectively with Aigialosaurus dalmaticus by Carroll and DeBraga (1992); it was misspelled as Opetiosaurus buccichi by Bell (1997), Bell and Polcyn (2005); it was recombined as Aigialosaurus bucchichi by Dutchak and Caldwell (2009).
It was synonymized subjectively with Aigialosaurus dalmaticus by Carroll and DeBraga (1992); it was misspelled as Opetiosaurus buccichi by Bell (1997), Bell and Polcyn (2005); it was recombined as Aigialosaurus bucchichi by Dutchak and Caldwell (2009).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1901 | Opetiosaurus bucchichi Kornhuber |
| 1997 | Opetiosaurus buccichi Bell |
| 2005 | Opetiosaurus bucchichi Bell and Polcyn p. 189 |
| 2009 | Aigialosaurus bucchichi Dutchak and Caldwell |
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†Aigialosaurus bucchichi Kornhuber 1901
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| A. R. Dutchak and M. W. Caldwell 2009 | Premaxillary rostrum absent; quadrate tympanic ala with uniform curvature; dentary teeth with conical, recurved tips rapidly expanding to broad cylindrical bases; splenial contacts coronoid at intermandibular hinge; final three or four caudal vertebrae show sharp downward curvature. |
Measurements
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| References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cenomanian | Croatia | Aigialosaurus bucchichi (123565) Opetiosaurus bucchichi (type locality: 123550) |