桨龙属
桨龙(属名:Eretmosaurus)是蛇颈龙目已灭绝的一个属。[1]
桨龙属 化石时期:早侏罗世 | |
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伦敦英国自然历史博物馆的化石 | |
科学分类 | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | Reptilia |
演化支: | 真 Eureptilia |
演化支: | 卢默龙类 Romeriida |
亚纲: | 双孔亚纲 Diapsida |
演化支: | 新双弓类 Neodiapsida |
总目: | †鳍龙总目 Sauropterygia |
属: | †桨龙属 Eretmosaurus Seeley, 1874 |
模式種 | |
†褶皱桨龙 Eretmosaurus rugosus (Owen, 1840 [原为蛇颈龙]) |
历史
桨龙是由哈利·丝莱(Harry Govier Seeley)为褶皱蛇颈龙(Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen 1840)所创建。[2]理查德·欧文(Richard Owen)已为来自格洛斯特郡早侏罗世蓝里阿斯组及英国其它未知地区的大量椎骨命名了褶皱蛇颈龙。[3]后来欧文又描述了一件归入褶皱蛇颈龙的无头骨骼(NHMUK 14435),[4]丝莱则以NHMUK 14435为基础为该物种建立新属。
参见
- 蛇颈龙列表
- 蛇颈龙类研究历史
参考资料
- Brown, David S., and Nathalie Bardet. "Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen, 1840 (currently Eretmosaurus rugosus; Reptilia, Plesiosauria): proposed designation of a neotype." Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51.3 (1994): 247-249.
- Seeley, H. G., 1874, Note on some of the generic modifications of the plesiosaurian pectoral arch: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1874, p. 436-449.
- R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Reports on the State of Science 43-126
- R. Owen. 1865. A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations. Part I, Sauropterygia. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 17(75):1-40
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