Tricleidus

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Tricleidus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic, Callovian
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Holotype specimen
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder:† Sauropterygia
Order:† Plesiosauria
Family:† Cryptoclididae
Subfamily:† Cryptoclidinae
Genus:† Tricleidus
Andrews, 1909
Species
  • T. seeleyi Andrews, 1909 (type)

Tricleidus is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid [1] plesiosaur known from only specimen (BMNH R3539) from the middle Jurassic of United Kingdom. [2] It was first named by Andrews in 1909 and the type species is Tricleidus seeleyi. [2]

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Skeletal diagram

One species, T. svalbardensis, [3] was moved into Colymbosaurus in 2012. [4] It was found in the Agardhfjellet Formation, Norway.

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References

  1. ↑ Ketchum, H. F. & Benson, R. B. J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews. 85 (2): 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID   20002391. S2CID   12193439.
  2. 1 2 Andrews, C. W. (1910). "A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part I". British Museum (Natural History), London, England: 205 pp.
  3. ↑ Persson, P.O. (1962): Plesiosaurians from Spitsbergen. Norsk Polarinstitutt, Årbok 1961, p. 62-68. Oslo University Press, 169 pp.
  4. ↑ Knutsen, E. M.; Druckenmiller, P. S.; Hurum, J. (2012). "Redescription and taxonomic clarification of 'Tricleidus' svalbardensis based on new material from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian)" (PDF). Norwegian Journal of Geology. 92: 175–186.


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