Genre
Valide Éteint

Rhomaleosaurus

Seeley 1874

Rhomaleosaurus est un genre fossile de sauroptérygiens appartenant à la super-famille des pliosaures. Il a vécu au Jurassique inférieur de l'Hettangien au Pliensbachien, soit il y a environ entre 183 à 175.6 millions d'années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
15
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marin
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Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni fossil, Natural History Museum, London © APK · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Rhomaleosaurus
Rhomaleosaurus
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Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria Ordre
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Rhomaleosauridae Famille
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Rhomaleosaurus Genre
Mesures
Longueur
7 m ⓘ
Sites de découverte 15 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
15
Formations géologiques
Whitby Mudstone
4
Blue Lias
3
Alum Shale
3
Westbury
1
Marlstone Rock
1
Distribution temporelle
Toarcien (184.2–174.7 Ma)
11
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
4
Espèces (6)
Plesiosaurus propinquus subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus 193 Ma
Plesiosaurus simpsoni subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus 193 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni 184 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus 201 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus 193 Ma
Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus 193 Ma
Images 3
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia 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 ↗