Species
Valid Extinct

Liopleurodon ferox

(Sauvage 1873)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
8
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Pliosauroidea Superfamily
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Pliosauridae Family
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Thalassophonea Unranked clade
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Liopleurodon Genus
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Liopleurodon ferox Species
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
🇫🇷 France
3
Geological formations
Oxford Clay
6
Marnes de Dives
1
Argiles de Montaubert
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
7
Synonyms (1)
Thaumatosaurus mosquensis subjective synonym of Liopleurodon ferox
Bibliography
Original description
H.-E. Sauvage. 1873. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 3 1:365-386
Bibliography (5)
H.-E. Sauvage. 1914. Catalogue des Reptiles Jurassiques du Boulonnais [Catalogue of Jurassic reptiles from the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la société Academique de l'Arrondissement de Boulogne-sur-Mer 10:253-264
C. W. Andrews. 1913. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Part II DOI ↗
G. von Arthaber. 1906. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation und der Anpassungserscheinungen des genus Metriorhynchus. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 19(4):287-320
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia DOI ↗
H.-E. Sauvage. 1873. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 3 1:365-386