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Hauffiosaurus tomistomimus
Taxonomy
Hauffiosaurus tomistomimus was named by Benson et al. (2011). Its type specimen is MANCH LL 8004, a skeleton (an almost complete skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ravenscar, which is in a Bifrons offshore shale in the Whitby Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Hauffiosaurus tomistomimus Benson et al. figs. text-figs. 1-15 |
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†Hauffiosaurus tomistomimus Benson et al. 2011
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. B. J. Benson et al. 2011 | "Representative of the genus Hauffiosaurus in which the preaxial margin of the tibia is strongly concave, the middle cervical centra have a ratio of width to anteroposterior length of approximately 1.2, the propodials are shorter than the pelvis, the pterygoids do not contact ventral to the basioccipital, and prominent longitudinal midline ridges are absent from the dorsal surface of the premaxillae or ventral surface of the mandibular symphysis." |