Genre
Valide Éteint

Dolichorhynchops

Williston 1902

Dolichorhynchops est un genre fossile de plésiosaures de la famille des Polycotylidae qui vivait dans la voie maritime intérieure de l'Ouest, en Amérique du Nord au Crétacé supérieur.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
14
Groupe
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore aquatic, depth=surface Marin
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Classification
Sauropterygia Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria Ordre
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Plesiosauroidea Superfamille
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Polycotylidae Famille
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Polycotylinae Sous-famille
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Dolichorhynchia Clade non classé
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Dolichorhynchops Genre
Sites de découverte 14 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇺🇸 États-Unis
8
🇨🇦 Canada
3
🇵🇱 Pologne
2
🇷🇺 Russie
1
Formations géologiques
Niobrara
4
Pierre Shale
3
Mesaverde
2
Bearpaw Shale
1
Distribution temporelle
Campanien (83.6–72.2 Ma)
7
Santonien (85.7–83.6 Ma)
2
Coniacien (89.8–85.7 Ma)
2
Turonien (93.9–89.8 Ma)
3
Espèces (5)
Dolichorhynchops herschelensis 84 Ma
Dolichorhynchops osborni 94 Ma
Plesiosaurus ichthyospondylus nomen vanum, species not entered Dolichorhynchops 94 Ma
Polycotylus osborni subjective synonym of Dolichorhynchops osborni 94 Ma
Trinacromerum latimanus nomen vanum, species not entered Dolichorhynchops
Synonymes (2)
Plesiosaurus ichthyospondylus nomen vanum, species not entered Dolichorhynchops
Trinacromerum latimanus nomen vanum, species not entered Dolichorhynchops
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Bibliographie
Description originale
S. W. Williston. 1902. Restoration of Dolichorhynchops osborni, a new Cretaceous plesiosaur. Kansas University Science Bulletin 1(9):241-244
Bibliographie (9)
T. Sato, X.-C. Wu, and A. Tirabasso, P. Bloskie. 2011. Braincase of a polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Manitoba, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(2):313-329 DOI ↗
D. G. DeMar and B. H. Breithaupt. 2008. Terrestrial and aquatic vertebrate paleocommunities of the Mesaverde Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Wyoming, USA. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography
F. R. O'Keefe. 2008. Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of Dolichorhynchops bonneri new combination, a polycotylid (Sauropteryga: Plesiosauria) from the Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(3):664-676 DOI ↗
D. G. DeMar, Jr. and B. H. Breithaupt. 2006. The nonmammalian vertebrate microfossil assemblages of the Mesaverde Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Campanian) of the Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Wyoming. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35:33-54
T. Sato. 2005. A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation in Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 79(5):969-980 DOI ↗
K. Carpenter. 1996. A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201(2):259-287 DOI ↗
D. A. Russell. 1967. Cretaceous vertebrates from the Anderson River N. W. T. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 4(1):21-38 DOI ↗
S. W. Williston. 1902. Restoration of Dolichorhynchops osborni, a new Cretaceous plesiosaur. Kansas University Science Bulletin 1(9):241-244
H. Schröder. 1885. Saurierreste aus der baltischen oberen Kreide [Saurian remains from the Baltic Upper Cretaceous]. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie zu Berlin 1884:293-333