Genus
Valid Extinct

Palmulasaurus

Albright et al. 2007

Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Turonian Tropic Shale of Utah. It was originally described as Palmula, but that name was already occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifera first described in 1833.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marine
Palmulasaurus
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Life reconstruction of Palmulasaurus quadratus © Connor Ashbridge · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamily
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Polycotylidae Family
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Palmulainae Subfamily
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Palmulasaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Tropic Shale
1
Temporal distribution
Turonian (93.9–89.8 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Palmulasaurus quadratus 94 Ma
Synonyms (1)
Palmula replaced by Palmulasaurus
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae; replacement names for the preoccupied genus Palmula and the subfamily Palmulainae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(4):1051-1051 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
L. B. Albright, D. D. Gillette, and A. L. Titus. 2007. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):41-58 DOI ↗