Colymbosaurus

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Colymbosaurus
Fossil range: Callovian to late Tithonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Plesiosauroidea
Family: ?Elasmosauridae or ?Cimoliasauridae
Genus: Colymbosaurus
Seeley, 1874
Species
  • Colymbosaurus trochanterius

Colymbosaurus is a genus of English plesiosaur described in 1874 by Seeley. The only bones found include 74 vertebrae and fins. Theory has it that this may be the missing body of Kimmerosaurus, which would make this a cryptoclid instead of an elasmosaurid.

[edit] References

http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/220Lepidosauromorpha/220.800.html#Colymbosaurus

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