Simolestes
Not to be confused with Cimolestes.
| Simolestes Temporal range: 171–145Ma | |
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| S. vorax skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Order: | Plesiosauria |
| Suborder: | Pliosauroidea |
| Family: | Pliosauridae [1] |
| Genus: | Simolestes |
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S. vorax (type species) | |
Simolestes (hearkening thief) is an extinct genus of pliosaurs that lived in the Middle to Late Jurassic. Three species are currently known:
Restoration of S. vorax
Tooth of S. vorax
- Simolestes keileni from the Bajocian of France
- Simolestes vorax from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation of England
- Simolestes indicus from the Tithonian of India
Simolestes could exceed 10m in length.[2]
Classification
The cladogram below follows a 2011 analysis by paleontologists Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson, and reduced to genera only.[3]
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See also
References
- ↑ Smith AS, Dyke GJ. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften e-published 2008.
- ↑ http://www.emgs.org.uk/files/mercian_vol13on/Mercian%20Geologist%20volume%2015%202000-2003/Mercian%202000%20v15%20p037%20Rhomaleosaurid%20pliosaur,%20Forrest.pdf
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Schumacher, B. A.; Carpenter, K.; Everhart, M. J. (2013). "A new Cretaceous Pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Carlile Shale (middle Turonian) of Russell County, Kansas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (3): 613. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.722576.
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