Genus: Phosphorosaurus DOLLO, 1889
Etymology:
Species: ortliebi (DOLLO, 1889)
Etymology:
= Phosophorosaurus ortliebi DOLLO, 1889
Etymology:
Holotype: IRSNB R34
Locality: Ciply, near Mesvin, Haianult, Belgium.
Horizon: Phosphatic Chalk.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late
Cretaceous.
Material: Fragmentary skull, frontal, parietal, prefrontal, postorbitofrontal,
quadrate, fragments of pterygoid, fragments of dentary and splenial.
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Species: ponpetelegans KONISHI,
CALDWELL, NISHIMURA, SAKURAI, & TANOUE, 2015
Etymology: From the words 'ponpet', which means a creek in Ainu (language
of the indigenosu people of Hokkaido), and Latin, elegans, 'elegant'; in
reference to both the exceptional preservation of the holotype adn the clean
Pankerusano-sawa Creek from which the fossil was derived. In addition, ponpet is
the etymological source of the village name Hobetsu.
Holotype: HMG-1528
Locality: East side of the Pankerusano-sawa Creek, approximately 5 km east
of Hobetsu and 2 km west of Tomiuchi, Hokkaido Island, Japan.
Horizon: Lower most section of unite IVb (corresonds to the lower middle
part of the Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group).
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lowermost Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late
Cretaceous.
Material: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.