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Muraenosaurus leedsii

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae

Taxonomy
Muraenosaurus leedsii was named by Seeley (1874). Its type specimen is BMNH R2421, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Huntingdonshire marine reptiles, which is in a Callovian marine horizon in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Muraenosaurus.

It was recombined as Plesiosaurus leedsi by Whidborne (1881); it was synonymized subjectively with Cimoliosaurus plicatus by Lydekker (1889); it was misspelled as Muraenosaurus leedsi by Andrews (1910), Hay (1930), Welles (1962), Brown (1981) and O'Keefe (2001); it was corrected as Muraenosaurus leedsi by Gasparini et al. (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Cimoliosaurus plicatus Phillips p. 313
1871Plesiosaurus plicatus Phillips pp. 313-314 figs. 68-69
1874Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley
1881Plesiosaurus leedsi Whidborne p. 480
1888Plesiosaurus plicatus Lydekker p. 351
1889Cimoliosaurus durobrivensis Lydekker p. viii
1892Muraenosaurus platyclis Seeley pp. 139-141 figs. 6, 7
1895Muraenosaurus plicatus Andrews p. 429
1910Muraenosaurus leedsi Andrews p. 120
1910Muraenosaurus durobrivensis Andrews p. 127
1930Muraenosaurus leedsii Hay p. 120
1940Tremamesacleis durobrivensis White
1940Tremamesacleis platycleis White p. 463
1960Muraenosaurus plicatus Delair p. 60
1962Muraenosaurus leedsii Welles p. 7
1981Muraenosaurus leedsii Brown pp. 282-283
2001Muraenosaurus leedsii O'Keefe p. 16
2002Muraenosaurus leedsi Gasparini 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
superfamilyPlesiosauroideaWelles 1943
familyCryptoclididaeWilliston 1925
genusMuraenosaurus
speciesleedsii

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.

†Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley 1874
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Invalid names: Cimoliosaurus plicatus Phillips 1871 [synonym], Muraenosaurus platyclis Seeley 1892 [synonym], Muraenosaurus plicatus Phillips 1871 [synonym], Tremamesacleis durobrivensis Lydekker 1889 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available