Attenborosaurus
| Attenborosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic | |
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| Cast of the Attenborosaurus holotype which was destroyed in World War II, at the Natural History Museum, London | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Sauropterygia |
| Order: | Plesiosauria |
| Suborder: | Pliosauroidea |
| Family: | Pliosauridae |
| Genus: | Attenborosaurus Bakker, 1993 |
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Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari.
Restoration
The genus is named after David Attenborough, the species after William Conybeare.
Classification
Specimen
The following cladogram follows an analysis by Ketchum & Benson, 2011.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson (2011). "A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids". Special Papers in Palaeontology 86: 109–129. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01083.x.
- Ancient Marine Reptiles by Jack M. Callaway and Elizabeth L. Nicholls
See also
List of animals named after celebrities
External links
- Attenborosaurus in The Plesiosaur Directory
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