Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Palmulasaurinae

Albright et al. 2007

Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Turonian Tropic Shale of Utah. It was originally described as Palmula, but that name was already occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifera first described in 1833.

Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
0
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Palmulasaurinae
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Life reconstruction of Palmulasaurus quadratus © Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
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Polycotylidae Family
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Palmulasaurinae Subfamily
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Bibliography
Original description
L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae; replacement names for the preoccupied genus Palmula and the subfamily Palmulainae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):1051-1051 DOI ↗