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Eretmosaurus

Reptilia - Plesiosauria

Taxonomy
Eretmosaurus was named by Seeley (1874) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr Rhae J l Sepkoski's reference number: 2].

It was assigned to Dolichodeira by Seeley (1892); to Rhomaleosauridae by Persson (1963); to Plesiosauridae by Lydekker (1889), Delair (1960) and Kuhn (1971); to Pliosauridae by White (1940) and Carroll (1988); to Plesiosauria by Sepkoski (2002); to Microcleididae by Benson et al. (2012); and to Plesiosauria by Benson and Druckenmiller (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Eretmosaurus Seeley pp. 445-447 figs. 9, 10
1889Eretmosaurus Lydekker p. 248
1892Eretmosaurus Seeley p. 151
1940Eretmosaurus White p. 466
1960Eretmosaurus Delair pp. 53, 58
1963Eretmosaurus Persson p. 19
1971Eretmosaurus Kuhn p. 20
1988Eretmosaurus Carroll
2002Eretmosaurus Sepkoski
2012Eretmosaurus Benson et al. fig. 4
2014Eretmosaurus 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
RankNameAuthor
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlesiosauriade Blainville 1835
genusEretmosaurus

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. †Eretmosaurus Seeley 1874
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†Eretmosaurus dubius Tate and Blake 1876
†Eretmosaurus rugosus Owen 1840
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. G. Seeley 1892"in which the carpus is strongly ossified and the scapula appears to have an inner and an outer union with the coracoid."