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Attenborosaurus

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Attenborosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 196.5–189.6 Ma
Cast of the holotype fossil, Natural History Museum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Pliosauridae
Genus: Attenborosaurus
Bakker, 1993
Species:
A. conybeari
Binomial name
Attenborosaurus conybeari
(Sollas, 1881)

Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari. The genus is named after David Attenborough, the species after William Conybeare.[1]

Classification

Life restoration of A. conybeari
Life restoration with Asteroceras obtusum

The following cladogram follows an analysis by Benson & Druckenmiller (2014).[2]

 Plesiosauria 

References

  1. ^ W. J. Sollas. 1881. On a new species of Plesiosaurus (P. Conybeari) from the Lower Lias of Charmouth; with observations on P megacephalus, Stutchbury, and P. brachycephalus, Owen. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 37:440-480
  2. ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89: 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455.

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