Taxonomic Group |
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Reptilia Order Plesiosauria |
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Fossil Name | Plesiosaurus plicatus Phillips, 1871 |
Type Status | Syntype |
Name History | Plesiosaurus plicatus Phillips, 1871 – See Brown (1981): Syntype Plesiosaurus plicatus Phillips, 1871 – See Phillips (1871): Syntype |
Registration No. | J.25939 |
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Collector | Name not available |
Donor or Associated Person | Name not available |
Held By | Oxford University Museum of Natural History |
Comments | Pectoral vertebra |
Country | England |
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Locality | St Clements, Oxford, Oxfordshire |
Grid Reference | Available from host institution |
Rock Unit | Weymouth Member |
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Biozone | Not available |
Geological Age |
Oxfordian Age (Jurassic Period) (157.3 – 163.5 Ma B.P.) |
References | BROWN, D.S. 1981. The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia), and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Geology), 35 (4), 253-347. p. 324 PHILLIPS, J. 1871. Geology of Oxford and the Valley of the Thames. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xxiv + 523 pp., diagrs I-CCVII. pp. 313 - 314 |
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