Species
Valid Extinct

Thalassiodracon hawkinsii

(Owen 1840)

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
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Plesiosauria Order
Pliosauroidea Superfamily
Pliosauridae Family
Thalassiodracon Genus
Thalassiodracon hawkinsii Species
Fossil sites 8 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
8
Geological formations
Blue Lias
4
White Lias
3
Temporal distribution
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
1
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
7
Synonyms (3)
Plesiosaurus eleutheraxon subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii
Plesiosaurus etheridgei subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii
Plesiosaurus etheridgii subjective synonym of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii
Bibliography
Original description
R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126
Bibliography (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