Species
Valid Extinct

Muraenosaurus leedsii

(Seeley 1874)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
9
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Plesiosauria Order
Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
Cryptoclididae Family
Muraenosaurus Genus
Muraenosaurus leedsii Species
Fossil sites 9 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
8
🇫🇷 France
1
Geological formations
Argiles de Montaubert
1
Temporal distribution
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
8
Synonyms (4)
Cimoliosaurus plicatus subjective synonym of Muraenosaurus leedsii
Muraenosaurus platyclis subjective synonym of Muraenosaurus leedsii
Muraenosaurus plicatus subjective synonym of Muraenosaurus leedsii
Tremamesacleis durobrivensis subjective synonym of Muraenosaurus leedsii
Bibliography
Original description
H. G. Seeley. 1874. On Muraenosaurus leedsii, a plesiosaurian from the Oxford Clay, Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:197-208 DOI ↗
Bibliography (9)
R. Araujo, A. S. Smith, and J. Liston. 2008. Alfred Leeds fossil vertebrate collection of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 26:17-32 DOI ↗
D. S. Brown. 1981. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35(4):253-347
J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90
H.-E. Sauvage. 1914. Catalogue des Reptiles Jurassiques du Boulonnais [Catalogue of Jurassic reptiles from the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la société Academique de l'Arrondissement de Boulogne-sur-Mer 10:253-264
G. von Arthaber. 1906. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation und der Anpassungserscheinungen des genus Metriorhynchus. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 19(4):287-320
H. G. Seeley. 1892. The Nature of the Shoulder Girdle and Clavicular Arch in Sauropterygia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 51:119-151
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1874. On Muraenosaurus leedsii, a plesiosaurian from the Oxford Clay, Part I. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:197-208 DOI ↗
J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford DOI ↗