Species
Valid Extinct

Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus

(Phillips 1854)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Rhomaleosauridae Family
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Rhomaleosaurus Genus
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Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus Species
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
Geological formations
Marlstone Rock
1
Alum Shale
1
Whitby Mudstone
1
Temporal distribution
Toarcian (184.2–174.7 Ma)
5
Synonyms (3)
Plesiosaurus propinquus subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
Plesiosaurus simpsoni subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni subjective synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
Bibliography
Original description
R. Tate and J. F. Blake. 1876. The Yorkshire Lias DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
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 ↗