Classification
Sites de découverte 33 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Callovien
(165.3–161.5 Ma)
3
Bathonien
(168.2–165.3 Ma)
2
Bajocien
(170.9–168.2 Ma)
2
Toarcien
(184.2–174.7 Ma)
13
Pliensbachien
(192.9–184.2 Ma)
4
Sinémurien
(199.5–192.9 Ma)
2
Hettangien
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
7
Synonymes (1)
Thaumatosauridae
subjective synonym of Rhomaleosauridae
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Bibliographie
Description originale
F. R. O'Keefe. 2001. A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Acta Zoologica Fennica 213:1-63
Bibliographie (25)
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A. S. Smith and R. Araújo. 2017. Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 308(4–6):89-125
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R. B. J. Benson, H. F. Ketchum, and D. Naish, L. E. Turner. 2013. A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(2):233-250
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R. B. J. Benson, M. Evans, and P. S. Druckenmiller. 2012. High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. PLoS ONE 7(3):e31838
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P. Vincent and R. B. J. Benson. 2012. Anningasaura, a basal plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of Lyme Regis, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(5):1049-1063
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H. F. Ketchum and A. S. Smith. 2010. The anatomy and taxonomy of Macroplata tenuiceps (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Hettangian (Lower Jurassic) of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4):1069-1081
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T. Sato and X. -C. Wu. 2008. A new Jurassic pliosaur from Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45:303-320
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A. S. Smith. 2008. Plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Bornholm, Denmark. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(4):1213-1217
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A. S. Smith and G. J. Dyke. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften 95:975-980
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G. Peng, Y. Ye, and Y. Gao, C. Shu, S. Jiang. 2005. Zìgòng dìqū zhū luó jì kǒnglóng dòngwù qún [Jurassic Dinosaur Faunas in Zigong].
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G. W. Storrs and M. A. Taylor. 1996. Cranial anatomy of a new plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street, Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):403-420
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A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. A juvenile plesiosaur (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a pliosauroid-plesiosauroid intermediate?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:151-178
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A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (Stutchbury) (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 343:247-260
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Y. Zhang. 1985. A new plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Sichuan Basin. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 23(3):235-240
M. J. Benton and M. A. Taylor. 1984. Marine reptiles from the Upper Lias (Lower Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of the Yorkshire coast. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 44(4):399-429
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J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90
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S. Melmore. 1946. Catalogue of types and figured specimens in the Geological Department of the Yorkshire Museum. The North Western Naturalist 20(3/4):207-221
C. W. Andrews. 1922. Note on the skeleton of a large plesiosaur (Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni, sp. n) from the Upper Lias of Northamptonshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10:407-415
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E. Fraas. 1910. Plesiosaurier aus dem oberen Lias von Holzmaden. Palaeontographica 57:105-140
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia
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T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411
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R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126