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Attenborosaurus conybeari
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus conybeari was named by Sollas (1881). Its type specimen is BRSMG Cb 2479 (destroyed), a skeleton (almost complete skeleton, missing parts of limbs), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Northwest corner of Black Ven Water, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was recombined as Attenborosaurus conybeari by Storrs (1997) and O'Keefe (2001).
It was recombined as Attenborosaurus conybeari by Storrs (1997) and O'Keefe (2001).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1867 | Plesiosaurus laticeps Owen p. 144 |
| 1881 | Plesiosaurus conybeari Sollas p. 442 |
| 1889 | Plesiosaurus conybeari Lydekker p. 269 |
| 1948 | Plesiosaurus conybeari Swinton pp. 344-345 figs. pl. 9a |
| 1960 | Plesiosaurus conybeari Delair p. 57 |
| 1997 | Attenborosaurus conybeari Storrs p. 179 |
| 2001 | Attenborosaurus conybeari O'Keefe p. 18 |
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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.
†Attenborosaurus conybeari Sollas 1881
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Invalid names: Plesiosaurus laticeps Owen 1867 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available