Species
Valid Extinct

Simolestes indicus

(Lydekker 1877)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Plesiosauria Order
Pliosauroidea Superfamily
Pliosauridae Family
Thalassophonea Unranked clade
Simolestes Genus
Simolestes indicus Species
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇳 India
2
Geological formations
Umia
2
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43
Bibliography (2)
K. K. Verma, P. P. Satsangi, and S. Srivastava, S. Mehra. 1979. On a plesiosaurian vertebra from the Upper Gondwanas of Kutch, Gujarat, India. IV International Gondwana Symposium, Calcutta (1977) 1: Papers:217-220
R. Lydekker. 1877. Notices of new and other Vertebrata from Indian Tertiary and Secondary rocks. Records of the Geological Survey of India 10(1):30-43