Genre
Valide Éteint

Brachauchenius

Williston 1903

Brachauchenius est un genre fossile de pliosaures ayant vécu durant le Crétacé. Une seule espèce est connue, Brachauchenius lucasi, décrite en 1903 à partir de fossiles découverts au Kansas.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
11
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marin
Brachauchenius
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Wikimedia
PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
Plesiosauria Ordre
Pliosauroidea Superfamille
Pliosauridae Famille
Thalassophonea Clade non classé
Brachaucheninae Sous-famille
Brachauchenius Genre
Sites de découverte 11 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
8
🇨🇴 Colombie
1
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
1
🇲🇦 Maroc
1
Formations géologiques
Greenhorn Limestone
2
Tropic Shale
2
Paja
1
Dakota
1
Eagle Ford
1
Akrabou
1
Distribution temporelle
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
5
Cénomanien (100.5–93.9 Ma)
5
Barrémien (125.77–121.4 Ma)
1
Espèces (1)
Brachauchenius lucasi 101 Ma
Bibliographie
Description originale
S. W. Williston. 1903. North American plesiosaurs, part 1. Geological Series Field Museum of Natural History 3(1):1-77 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (11)
D. Madzia, S. Sachs, and J. Lindgren. 2018. Morphological and phylogenetic aspects of the dentition of Megacephalosaurus eulerti, a pliosaurid from the Turonian of Kansas, USA, with remarks on the cranial anatomy of the taxon. Geological Magazine 156(7):1201-1216 DOI ↗
D. Angst and N. Bardet. 2016. A new record of the pliosaur Brachauchenius lucasi Williston, 1903 (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) of Turonian (Late Cretaceous) age, Morocco. Geological Magazine 153(3):449-459 DOI ↗
R. B. J. Benson, M. Evans, and A. S. Smith, J. Sassoon, S. Moore-Faye, H. F. Ketchum, R. Forrest. 2013. A giant pliosaurid skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE 8(5):e65989 DOI ↗
A. Bell and M. J. Everhart. 2011. Remains of small ornithurine birds from a Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) microsite in Russell County, north-central Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114(1-2):115-123 DOI ↗
J. Bourdon and M. J. Everhart. 2010. Occurrence of the extinct carpet shark, Orectoloboides, in the Dakota Formation (Late Cretaceous; Middle Cenomanian) of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 113:237-242 DOI ↗
L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 1: new records of the pliosaur Brachauchenius lucasi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):31-40 DOI ↗
O. Hampe. 2005. Considerations on a Brachauchenius skeleton (Pliosauroidea)from the lower Paja Formation (late Barremian) of Villa de Leyva area (Colombia). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 8:37-51 DOI ↗
K. Shimada, J. A. Parkin, and J. M. Palermo, B. A. Schumacher. 2003. Late Cretaceous marine vertebrates from the basal Greenhorn Limestone in southeastern Colorado. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):96A
J. D. Stewart and J. E. Martin. 1993. Late Cretaceous selachians and associated marine vertebrates from the Dakota Rose granite quarry, Grant County, South Dakota. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 72:241-248
S. W. Williston. 1903. North American plesiosaurs, part 1. Geological Series Field Museum of Natural History 3(1):1-77 DOI ↗
S. W. Williston. 1903. On the structure of the plesiosaurian skull. Science 17(442):980 DOI ↗