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Brancasaurus

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae

Taxonomy
Brancasaurus was named by Wegner (1914) [Sepkoski's age data: K Berr K l Sepkoski's reference number: 2]. Its type is Brancasaurus brancai.

It was assigned to Brancasauridae by White (1940); to Elasmosaurinae by Welles (1962); to Elasmosauridae by Wegner (1914), Persson (1963), Carroll (1988), Carpenter (1999) and O'Keefe (2001); to Plesiosauria by Sepkoski (2002) and Otero et al. (2012); to Leptocleidia by Benson et al. (2013); and to Leptocleididae by Ketchum and Benson (2010), Hampe (2013), Benson et al. (2013) and Benson and Druckenmiller (2014).

Species
B. brancai (type species)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1914Brancasaurus Wegner
1940Brancasaurus White p. 461
1962Brancasaurus Welles pp. 4 & 41-44
1963Brancasaurus Persson p. 17
1988Brancasaurus Carroll
1999Brancasaurus Carpenter p. 168 fig. 15
2001Brancasaurus O'Keefe p. 19 fig. 20
2002Brancasaurus Sepkoski
2010Brancasaurus Ketchum and Benson p. 15
2012Brancasaurus Otero et al.
2013Brancasaurus Benson et al.
2013Brancasaurus Benson et al. fig. 4
2013Brancasaurus Hampe fig. 9
2014Brancasaurus Benson and Druckenmiller figs. 2-3

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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
—Leptocleidia
familyLeptocleididae
genusBrancasaurusWegner 1914

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.

G. †Brancasaurus Wegner 1914
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†Brancasaurus brancai Wegner 1914
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available