Brancasaurus
| Brancasaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, Berriasian | |
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| Skull of Brancasaurus in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Sauropterygia |
| Order: | Plesiosauria |
| Family: | Leptocleididae[1] |
| Genus: | Brancasaurus Wegner, 1914 |
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Brancasaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Germany. The type species is Brancasaurus brancai, first named by Wegner in 1914 in honor of German paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca. Brancasaurus was similar to Elasmosaurus; like Elasmosaurus, it had a long neck and a small head.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Ketchum, H. F., and Benson, R. B. J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews 85: 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID 20002391.
- ↑ Druckenmiller, Patrick S. and Russell, Anthony P. (2006). "A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, northeastern Alberta, Canada" (PDF). Paludicola 5 (4): 184–199.
External links
- Brancasaurus in the Plesiosaur Directory
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