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Plesiosaurus rostratus

Reptilia - Plesiosauria

Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus rostratus was named by Owen (1865). Its type specimen is BMNH 38525, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Charmouth, E.C.H. Day collection, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Rhomaleosaurus rostratus by Persson (1963); it was recombined as Archaeonectrus rostratus by Storrs (1997).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. morinicus

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Plesiosaurus rostratus Owen pp. 20-33 figs. pls 9-13
1889Plesiosaurus rostratus Lydekker p. 271 fig. 81
1894Plesiosaurus rostratus Browne p. 749
1960Plesiosaurus rostratus Delair pp. 56-57
1963Rhomaleosaurus rostratus Persson p. 21
1997Archaeonectrus rostratus Storrs p. 179

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlesiosauriade Blainville 1835
superfamilyPlesiosauroideaWelles 1943
genusPlesiosaurus
speciesrostratus

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available