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Plesiosaurus tessarestarsostinus
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus tessarestarsostinus was named by Hawkins (1834). Its type specimen is BMNH 2018*, a skeleton (alsmot complete skeleton missing distal portions of some limbs), and it is a 3D body fossil.
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiosaurus hawkinsii by Lydekker (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Plesiosaurus hawkinsi by Delair (1960); it was replaced with Thalassiodracon hawkinsii by Storrs and Taylor (1996); it was considered a nomen oblitum by Benson et al. (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Plesiosaurus hawkinsii by Lydekker (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Plesiosaurus hawkinsi by Delair (1960); it was replaced with Thalassiodracon hawkinsii by Storrs and Taylor (1996); it was considered a nomen oblitum by Benson et al. (2011).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1834 | Plesiosaurus tessarestarsostinus Hawkins p. 40 fig. 24 |
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†Plesiosaurus tessarestarsostinus Hawkins 1834
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available