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Leptocleidus capensis
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus capensis was named by Andrews (1911). Its type specimen is SAM-PK 5822, a partial skeleton (Skull and various postcrania), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Picnic Bush, Swartkops River, which is in a Valanginian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Sundays River Formation of South Africa.
It was recombined as Peyerus capensis by Andrews (1911), Stromer (1935) and Welles (1962); it was recombined as Leptocleidus capensis by Andrews (1922), Persson (1963), Cruickshank (1997) and O'Keefe (2001).
It was recombined as Peyerus capensis by Andrews (1911), Stromer (1935) and Welles (1962); it was recombined as Leptocleidus capensis by Andrews (1922), Persson (1963), Cruickshank (1997) and O'Keefe (2001).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Peyerus capensis Andrews |
| 1911 | Plesiosaurus capensis Andrews p. 311 figs. 1-3 & Pl. 18 |
| 1922 | Leptocleidus capensis Andrews p. 296 |
| 1935 | Peyerus capensis Stromer p. 44 |
| 1962 | Peyerus capensis Welles p. 41 |
| 1963 | Leptocleidus capensis Persson p. 19 |
| 1997 | Leptocleidus capensis Cruickshank pp. 210-211 |
| 2001 | Leptocleidus capensis O'Keefe p. 12 |
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†Leptocleidus capensis Andrews 1911
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available