Classification
Sites de découverte 15 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Toarcien
(184.2–174.7 Ma)
11
Hettangien
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
4
Espèces (6)
Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni
184 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus
201 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
193 Ma
Images 2
Bibliographie
Description originale
H. G. Seeley. 1874. Note on some generic modifications of the plesiosaurian pectoral arch. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:436-449
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Bibliographie (8)
A. S. Smith and G. J. Dyke. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften 95:975-980
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G. W. Storrs and M. A. Taylor. 1996. Cranial anatomy of a new plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street, Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):403-420
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A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (Stutchbury) (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 343:247-260
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M. J. Benton and M. A. Taylor. 1984. Marine reptiles from the Upper Lias (Lower Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of the Yorkshire coast. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 44(4):399-429
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S. Melmore. 1946. Catalogue of types and figured specimens in the Geological Department of the Yorkshire Museum. The North Western Naturalist 20(3/4):207-221
C. W. Andrews. 1922. Note on the skeleton of a large plesiosaur (Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni, sp. n) from the Upper Lias of Northamptonshire. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10:407-415
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R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia
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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
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