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Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus zetlandicus was named by Phillips (1854). Its type specimen is YORYM G503, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Loftus, which is in a Toarcian offshore shale in the Alum Shale Formation of the United Kingdom.
It was misspelled as Plesiosaurus zetlandi by Tate and Blake (1876); it was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus by Phillips (1854), Taylor (1992), Cruickshank (1996) and O'Keefe (2001).
It was misspelled as Plesiosaurus zetlandi by Tate and Blake (1876); it was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus by Phillips (1854), Taylor (1992), Cruickshank (1996) and O'Keefe (2001).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1854 | Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus Phillips |
1876 | Plesiosaurus simpsoni Blake |
1876 | Plesiosaurus propinquus Blake p. 247 |
1876 | Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate and Blake pp. 247-249 figs. pl. 2, fig. 1 |
1876 | Plesiosaurus zetlandi Tate and Blake pp. 249-250 figs. pl. 1, fig. 5 |
1889 | Thaumatosaurus propinquus Lydekker p. 170 |
1909 | Plesiosaurus propinquus Watson p. 3 |
1910 | Plesiosaurus propinquus Watson p. 1 figs. 1-8 |
1922 | Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni Andrews pp. 407-415 figs. pls 7-9 |
1992 | Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus Taylor p. 249 |
1996 | Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus Cruickshank pp. 109-113 |
2001 | Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus O'Keefe p. 12 |
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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.
†Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus Phillips 1854
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Invalid names: Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate and Blake 1876 [synonym], Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni Andrews 1922 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available