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Thaumatodracon

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Thaumatodracon
Temporal range: Sinemurian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Rhomaleosauridae
Genus: Thaumatodracon
Smith & Araújo, 2017
Type species
Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi
Smith & Araújo, 2017

Thaumatodracon is a genus of rhomaleosaurid pliosaur from the early Jurassic found in the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, named by Adam Smith and Ricardo Araújo in 2017.[1]

References

  1. ^ Smith, A.S.; Araújo, R. (2017). "Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis" (PDF). Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 308 (4–6): 89–125. doi:10.1127/pala/308/2017/89.