Genre
Valide Éteint

Thalassiodracon

Storrs and Taylor 1996

Thalassiodracon est un genre fossile de reptiles plésiosauriens de petite taille, appartenant à la super-famille des Pliosauroidea et à la famille des Pliosauridae. Il a vécu en Europe à la base du Jurassique inférieur (Hettangien), soit il y a environ entre 201 et 199 Ma.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
8
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marin
Thalassiodracon
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Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria Ordre
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Pliosauroidea Superfamille
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Pliosauridae Famille
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Thalassiodracon Genre
Sites de découverte 8 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
8
Formations géologiques
Blue Lias
4
White Lias
3
Distribution temporelle
Pliensbachien (192.9–184.2 Ma)
1
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
7
Espèces (7)
Plesiosaurus eleutheraxon subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii 201 Ma
Plesiosaurus etheridgei subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii 201 Ma
Plesiosaurus etheridgii subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii 201 Ma
Plesiosaurus hexatarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Plesiosaurus pentetarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Plesiosaurus triatarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Thalassiodracon hawkinsii 201 Ma
Synonymes (3)
Plesiosaurus hexatarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Plesiosaurus pentetarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Plesiosaurus triatarsostinus nomen oblitum, species not entered Thalassiodracon
Images 1
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 (6)
J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90
R. Lydekker. 1888. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Containing the Orders Ornithosauria, Crocodilia, Dinosauria, Squamata, Rhynchocephalia, and Proterosauria. British Museum (Natural History), London DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1865. On two new plesiosaurs, from the Lias. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3 16:352-359 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
T. H. Huxley. 1858. On a new species of Plesiosaurus from Street, near Glastonbury; with remarks on the structure of the atlas and axis vertebrae, and of the cranium, in that genus. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 14:281-294 DOI ↗
R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126