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Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus was named by Conybeare (1824). Its type specimen is BMNH 22656, a skeleton (almost complete skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Lyme Regis, Echinoceras raricostatum, which is in a Sinemurian marine horizon in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Plesiosaurus.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1824 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Conybeare |
1831 | Plesiosaurus homei Gray p. 66 |
1833 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Mantell p. 282 |
1836 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Mantell p. 20 |
1840 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Owen pp. 60-62 |
1840 | Plesiosaurus macromus Owen p. 72 |
1849 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus d'Orbigny p. 210 |
1851 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Mantell p. 143 |
1858 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Buckland p. 199 |
1860 | Plesiosaurus homei Gray |
1865 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Owen pp. 1-11 figs. pls 1-4 |
1865 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Seeley p. 50 |
1869 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Seeley p. 143 |
1902 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Hay p. 456 |
1930 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Hay p. 115 |
1934 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Swinton p. 61 |
1960 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Delair pp. 53-54 |
1960 | Plesiosaurus macromus Delair pp. 55-56 |
1963 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Persson p. 8 |
1997 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Storrs pp. 149-150 |
2000 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Hopley p. 131 figs. 3-8 |
2001 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus O'Keefe p. 11 |
2002 | Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Gasparini et al. |
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†Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus Conybeare 1824
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Invalid names: Plesiosaurus homei Gray 1831 [synonym], Plesiosaurus macromus Owen 1840 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available