Species
Valid Extinct

Pliosaurus brachydeirus

(Owen 1841)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
15
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Plesiosauria Order
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Pliosauroidea Superfamily
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Pliosauridae Family
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Thalassophonea Unranked clade
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Pliosaurus Genus
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Pliosaurus brachydeirus Species
Fossil sites 15 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
15
Geological formations
Kimmeridge Clay
14
Portland Oolite
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
3
Kimmeridgian (154.8–149.2 Ma)
12
Synonyms (1)
Peloneustes sterrodeirus subjective synonym of Pliosaurus brachydeirus
Bibliography
Original description
R. Owen. 1841. Odontography; or, a Treatise on the Comparative Anatomy of the Teeth; Their Physiological Relations, Mode of Development, and Microscopic Structure, in the Vertebrate Animals. Part II. Dental System of Reptiles DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
J. B. Delair. 1960. The Mesozoic reptiles of Dorset. Part two. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 80:52-90
R. Lydekker. 1889. Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia DOI ↗
J. Phillips. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford DOI ↗
H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge DOI ↗
R. Owen. 1841. Odontography; or, a Treatise on the Comparative Anatomy of the Teeth; Their Physiological Relations, Mode of Development, and Microscopic Structure, in the Vertebrate Animals. Part II. Dental System of Reptiles DOI ↗