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Muraenosaurus

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Cryptoclididae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Muraenosaurus Seeley p. 197
1892Muraenosaurus Seeley p. 151
1910Muraenosaurus Andrews p. 77
1914Muraenosaurus Wegner p. 289
1930Muraenosaurus Hay p. 120
1940Muraenosaurus White p. 461
1940Tremamesacleis White p. 463
1960Muraenosaurus Delair p. 60
1962Muraenosaurus Welles p. 7
1981Muraenosaurus Brown p. 340
1988Muraenosaurus Carroll
1993Muraenosaurus Gasparini and Spalletti p. 250
1999Muraenosaurus Carpenter p. 168 fig. 15
2001Muraenosaurus O'Keefe p. 19 fig. 20
2002Muraenosaurus Gasparini et al.
2002Muraenosaurus Sepkoski
2002Tremamesacleis Sepkoski
2004Muraenosaurus O'Keefe p. 337 figs. Fig. 11
2010Muraenosaurus Ketchum and Benson p. 15
2012Muraenosaurus Otero et al.
2014Muraenosaurus 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
familyCryptoclididaeWilliston 1925
genusMuraenosaurus

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. †Muraenosaurus Seeley 1874
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Muraenosaurus fahrenkohli Waldheim 1846
Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley 1874
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Invalid names: Cimoliosaurus plicatus Phillips 1871 [synonym], Muraenosaurus platyclis Seeley 1892 [synonym], Muraenosaurus plicatus Phillips 1871 [synonym], Tremamesacleis durobrivensis Lydekker 1889 [synonym]
Muraenosaurus purbecki Bogolubov 1911
Invalid names: Tremamesacleis White 1940 [synonym]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
T. E. White 1940 (Tremamesacleis)"Skull brachycephalic; teeth conical and of medium length; orbits anterior to midlength of skull; 38 cervical, 21 dorsal, and 14 + caudal vertebrae; cervical ribs single-headed; clavicles and in terclavicle present and well developed; interclavicular foramen present, bounded anteriorly and probably laterally by the interclavicle (Andrews, 1910, pl. 6, fig. 3, indicates that the posterior extent of the clavicles and interclavicle was greater than the diagram shows); scapulae meeting in midline and meeting the coracoids between the scapulo-coracoid fenestrae."