Brimosaurus

Brimosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	† Sauropterygia
Order:	† Plesiosauria
Genus:	† Brimosaurus
Species
Brimosaurus grandis(type) Leidy, 1854

Brimosaurus (meaning "strong lizard") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Arkansas. The type species is Brimosaurus grandis, first named by Joseph Leidy in 1854. The name Brimosaurus is a nomen dubium : the fossils consist of only a few isolated vertebrae, and in 1952 Welles proposed that Brimosaurus was actually synonymous with Cimoliasaurus (which itself is based on dubious material).

See also

• Timeline of plesiosaur research
• List of plesiosaur genera

References

• Leidy, J. (1854). "Remarks on exhibiting to the Society four vertebrae of a huge extinct Saurian from Arkansas" Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 7(3): 72.

External links

• Brimosaurus from Oceans of Kansas