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Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus cramptoni was named by Carte and Baily (1863). Its type specimen is NMING F8785, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is alum quarry, Kettleness, which is in a Toarcian offshore shale in the Whitby Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Thaumatosaurus cramptoni by Lydekker (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus by Cruickshank (1996); it was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni by Seeley (1874), Seeley (1874), Watson (1909), Andrews (1922), Cruickshank (1994), O'Keefe (2001) and Smith and Dyke (2008).
It was recombined as Thaumatosaurus cramptoni by Lydekker (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus by Cruickshank (1996); it was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni by Seeley (1874), Seeley (1874), Watson (1909), Andrews (1922), Cruickshank (1994), O'Keefe (2001) and Smith and Dyke (2008).
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1863 | Plesiosaurus cramptoni Carte and Baily p. 161 |
1865 | Plesiosaurus cramptoni Seeley p. 50 |
1874 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Seeley |
1876 | Plesiosaurus cramptoni Tate and Blake pp. 246-247 |
1889 | Thaumatosaurus cramptoni Lydekker pp. 161-163 |
1909 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Watson p. 2 |
1922 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Andrews p. 407 |
1934 | Plesiosaurus cramptoni Swinton p. 58 |
1994 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Cruickshank p. 250 |
2001 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni O'Keefe p. 11 |
2008 | Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Smith and Dyke p. 976 figs. 1-3 |
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†Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni Carte and Baily 1863
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available