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Vectocleidus pastorum
Taxonomy
Vectocleidus pastorum was named by Benson et al. (2013). Its type specimen is MIWG 1997.302, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Shepherds Chine foreshore, which is in a Barremian estuary/bay mudstone in the Vectis Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Vectocleidus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Vectocleidus pastorum Benson et al. figs. 1-3 |
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†Vectocleidus pastorum Benson et al. 2013
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| R. B. J. Benson et al. 2013 | Leptocleidid plesiosaurian with autapomorphic dorsal neural spines that are anteroposteriorly short, and successive spines alternate between being transversely compressed, and being expanded to the right. V. pastorum additionally differs from Leptocleidus superstes in having more gracile clavicles and the anterior process of the coracoid is inflected anterolaterally. The posterior cervical centra are shorter anteroposteriorly than high dorsoventrally, differing from Brancasaurus. |