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Simolestes indicus
Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus indicus was named by Lydekker (1877). Its type specimen is SPecimen in the Indian Museum of Calcutta (cast BMNH R.1401), a mandible (symphysial portion of a mandible), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bururia, Kutch, which is in a Tithonian marine horizon in the Umia Formation of India.
It was recombined as Thaumatosaurus indicus by Lydekker (1889) and Swinton (1934); it was recombined as Simolestes indicus by Bardet et al. (1991).
It was recombined as Thaumatosaurus indicus by Lydekker (1889) and Swinton (1934); it was recombined as Simolestes indicus by Bardet et al. (1991).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1877 | Plesiosaurus indicus Lydekker pp. 41-42 |
| 1889 | Thaumatosaurus indicus Lydekker p. 160 |
| 1934 | Thaumatosaurus indicus Swinton p. 61 |
| 1991 | Simolestes indicus Bardet et al. pp. 1346-1347 fig. C |
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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.
†Simolestes indicus Lydekker 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Hampe 2005 | |||||