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Pelorosaurus conybeari

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Cetiosaurus conybeari was named by Melville (1849) [humerus (BMNH 28626) made type of Pelorosaurus, but the caudals are the type of the species C. conybeari.]. Its type specimen is BMNH 28626, a limb element (right humerus), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cuckfield Quarry, Tilgate, which is in a Valanginian/Hauterivian terrestrial sandstone in the Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Pelorosaurus.

It was recombined as Pelorosaurus conybeari by Mantell (1850), Mantell (1850), Mantell (1851), Gervais (1852), Mantell (1852), Mantell (1852), Pictet (1853), Owen (1859), Lydekker (1888), Newton (1889), Lydekker (1889), Woodward and Sherborn (1890), Lydekker (1893), Lydekker (1893), Van Den Broeck (1900), Sauvage (1900), Nopcsa (1901), Sauvage (1902), Huene (1927), Tatarinov (1964), Steel (1970), McIntosh (1990), Cheevely and Chapman (1992), Norman (1997), Blows (1998) and Upchurch et al. (2004); it was misspelled as Pelorosaurus conybearei by Mantell (1851) and Gervais (1859); it was considered a nomen vanum by Blows (1995); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001); it was misspelled as Pelorosaurus conybearei by Royo-Torres et al. (2006); it was synonymized objectively with Cetiosaurus brevis by Owen (1859), Blows (1998) and Naish and Martill (2007).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1849Cetiosaurus conybeari Melville p. 297
1850Pelorosaurus conybeari Mantell p. 128
1851Pelorosaurus conybearei Mantell p. 330
1851Pelorosaurus conybeari Mantell p. 921
1852Pelorosaurus conybeari Gervais pp. 9 (v3)
1852Pelorosaurus conybeari Mantell
1853Pelorosaurus conybeari Pictet p. 474
1859Pelorosaurus conybearei Gervais p. 468
1859Pelorosaurus conybeari Owen pp. 38-39
1888Pelorosaurus conybeari Lydekker p. 145
1889Pelorosaurus conybeari Lydekker p. 325
1889Pelorosaurus conybeari Newton p. 260
1890Pelorosaurus conybeari Woodward and Sherborn p. 263
1893Pelorosaurus conybeari Lydekker p. 276
1900Pelorosaurus conybeari Sauvage p. 504
1900Pelorosaurus conybeari Van Den Broeck p. 82
1901Pelorosaurus conybeari Nopcsa p. 206
1902Pelorosaurus conybeari Sauvage p. 411
1927Pelorosaurus conybeari Huene p. 446
1964Pelorosaurus conybeari Tatarinov p. 547
1970Pelorosaurus conybeari Steel p. 68
1990Pelorosaurus conybeari McIntosh p. 383
1992Pelorosaurus conybeari Cheevely and Chapman p. 349
1997Pelorosaurus conybeari Norman p. 784
1998Pelorosaurus conybeari Blows p. 34
2004Pelorosaurus conybeari Upchurch et al. p. 266
2006Pelorosaurus conybearei Royo-Torres et al. figs. Table S2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
RankNameAuthor
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Sauropoda()
—Gravisauria
—Eusauropoda
—Neosauropoda
—Macronaria
—Titanosauriformes
genusPelorosaurus
speciesconybeari()

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.

†Pelorosaurus conybeari Melville 1849
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Diagnosis
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