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Hauffiosaurus longirostris

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae

Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus longirostris was named by Tate and Blake (1876). Its type specimen is MCZ 1033, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 'Alum Shale' (Harpoceras falciferum), Whitby-Saltwick section, Yorkshire, which is in a Falciferum marine shale in the Whitby Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Macroplata longirostris by White (1940) and O'Keefe (2001); it was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus longirostris by Broadhurst and Duffy (1970); it was recombined as Hauffiosaurus longirostris by Benson et al. (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Plesiosaurus longirostris Blake
1876Plesiosaurus longirostris Tate and Blake pp. 250-251 figs. pl. 1, fig. 6; pl. 3, fig. 2
1909Plesiosaurus longirostris Watson p. 3
1940Macroplata longirostris White p. 451 figs. 1-5
1970Rhomaleosaurus longirostris Broadhurst and Duffy p. 30 fig. 28
2001Macroplata longirostris O'Keefe p. 12
2011Hauffiosaurus longirostris Benson et al.

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

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.

Hauffiosaurus longirostris Tate and Blake 1876
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available