Eretmosaurus

Eretmosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur.[1]

Eretmosaurus
Fossil in Natural History Museum, London
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Enaliosauria
Order:
Sauropterygia
Genus:
Eretmosaurus

Seeley, 1874
Species
  • E. rugosus (Owen, 1840) (originally Plesiosaurus)
Illustration

Taxonomic history

Eretmosaurus was coined by Harry Govier Seeley for Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen, 1840.[2] Richard Owen had coined the name P. rugosus for numerous vertebrae from the Early Jurassic Blue Lias of Gloucestershire and other unspecified locations in the UK.[3] Later, Owen described a headless skeleton (NHMUK 14435) that he assigned to P. rugosus,[4] and Seeley used NHMUK 14435 as the basis for coining a new genus for this species.

See also

See also
  • Jurassic plesiosaurs of Europe
  • List of plesiosaurs

References
  1. Brown, David S., and Nathalie Bardet. "Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen, 1840 (currently Eretmosaurus rugosus; Reptilia, Plesiosauria): proposed designation of a neotype." Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51.3 (1994): 247-249.
  2. Seeley, H. G., 1874, Note on some of the generic modifications of the plesiosaurian pectoral arch: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1874, p. 436-449.
  3. R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Reports on the State of Science 43-126
  4. R. Owen. 1865. A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations. Part I, Sauropterygia. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 17(75):1-40


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