Species: trochanterius (OWEN, 1840) SEELEY, 1874
Etymology:
= Plesiosaurus trochanterius OWEN, 1840
= Plesiosaurus (Pliosaurus) trochanterius (OWEN, 1840) OWEN, 1841
= Pliosaurus trochanterius (OWEN, 1840) PHILLIPS, 1871
= Cimoliosaurus trochanterius (OWEN, 1840) LYDEKKER, 1889
= Cryptocleidus trochanterius (OWEN, 1840) SAUVAGE, 1911
Holotype: 31787
Locality: Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire or Christian Malford, Wiltshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay, or Oxford Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Oxfordian or Kimmeridgian Stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: Femur.
Referred material:
BENTON & SPENCER, 1995
Locality: Roswell Pits, Ely, (TL 555808, TL 552807), Cambridgeshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Lower Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Early Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
BROWN, 1981
Locality: Shotover, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R 31785: Left femur.
BMNH R 31795: Left humerus.
Locality: Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R 40107: Left Femur.
Locality: Unknown, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R 46479: Right humerus of a juvenile.
Locality: Downham Market, Norfolk County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
CMNH 15.72(2): Left femur, tibia, fibula, 2 distal tarsals and several phalanges.
Locality: Coppock's Pit, Shotover, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
MM LL 5513: Right humerus.
MM LL 5514: Left humerus.
MM LL 5515: Left scapula.
MM LL 5516: Coracoid.
MM LL 5517: Coracoid.
MM LL 5518a-d: 2 ulnae, 1 Ulnare and a carpal.
BROWN, 1984
Locality: Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
DORCM: Fragmentary skeleton.
DELAIR, 1959
Locality: Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R 205: Saurian bones.
Locality: Kimmeridge, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:BMNH R 5739: Fragments.
BMNH 40975: Saurian bones.
Locality: Beneath a coastguard station (National Grid Reference: S"Y 706722), Island of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
DORCM G. 181: 2 dorsal, 1 pectoral, 2 dorsal and 7 caudal vertebrae, 8 pectoral/dorsal ribs, 14 gastralia, left coracoids, right ilia, pubes, right ischia, left humerus, epipodials/mesopodials/ 1st metacarpal 3, and 19 phalanges 2nd-5th metacarpal.
Note: Muraenosaurus sp by J. B. Delair.
Locality: England.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Late Jurassic.
Material:
SBJ Stephen Bankler-Jukes: 4 cervicals, and 3 dorsal vertebrae, 17 pectoral/dorsal rigs, 4 sacral ribs, 26 gastralia, right coracoid, 9 epipodials/ mesopodials/ 1st metacarpal, 21 phalanges/ 2nd-5th metacarpal.
Locality: Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH 40106: 1 cervical, 1 pectoral, and 1 dorsal vertebrae, 2 rigs, 11 gastralia, left ilium, left ischia, 1 phalange.
Sedgwick Museum Cambridge specimen J. 29596: Fragmentary skeleton.
Locality: Shotover, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Manchester Museum LL.5513-8: Fragmentary skeleton.
DELAIR & WIMBLEDON, 1995
Locality: Quainton, Buckinghampshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Lowest Beds, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH: Centra.
OUM: Centrum.
Locality: Preston, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: ‘oolite’, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
Locality: Ridgeway, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: ‘upper’ beds, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
DCM: Centrum.
Locality: Winspit Quarry, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: ‘stone’, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
SMC: Centra.
Locality: Little beach, NE of Verne, Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: ‘stone’, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Centrum.
Locality: Tisbury, Wilthsire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: ‘upper’ beds, Portland Stone.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH: Centra.
= Cimoliosaurus [sic!] portlandicus MADZIA, SZCZYGIELSKI & WOLNIEWICZ, 2021
Locality: Brzustowka (Brzostowka), Krzyzanowice, Poland.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Tithonian stage, Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Vertebral centrum.
OWEN, 1854
Locality: Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 212: A crushed posterior cervical centrum.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 213: Dorsal centrum.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 214: Dorsal vertebra of a young individual.
Locality: Unknown.Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Unknown.
Material:
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 217: Proximal end of a humerus.
Locality: Shotover Hill, Oxfordshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS 219: Cast of a femur.
PERRSON
Locality: Tour Croy, near Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais Department, France.
Horizon: Middle Portlandian.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Vertebrae.
Locality: Chukino, the Moscow Basin, European Russia.Horizon: Portlandian.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Vertebrae.
SAUVAGE, 1894
Locality: Boulannais, France.
Horizon: Middle Potlandian.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
= Pliosaurus portlandicus OWEN, 1869
Etymology: In reference to the Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England.
= Cimoliosaurus portlandicus (OWEN, 1869) LYDEKKER, 1889
= Colymbosaurus portlandicus (OWEN, 1869) SEELEY, 1892Holotype: BMNH 40640
Locality: Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Portland Oolite.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material: Right femur, tibia, fibula, metacarpals and a few phalanges.
Referred material:
DELAIR, 1959
Locality: Smallmouth Sands, Weymouth, (SY 669764-SY 672772), Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Lower Kimmeridgian Clay.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Early Kimmeridgian Stage, Middle Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
Locality: Preston, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Portland beds.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
Locality: Ridgeway, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Portland beds.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given:
LYDEKKER, 1889
Locality: Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Portland Oolite.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Cervical, dorsal and caudal vertebrae.
LYDEKKER, 1889Locality: Cinder Bed, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Middle Purbeck.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Uppermost Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R1607: 2 centra.
LYDEKKER, 1889
Locality: Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Portland Oolite.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
BMNH R1674: The flattened centrum of a middle or posterior cervical vertebra.
BMNH R1674a: One of the bones situated between the propodials and phalangelas.
BMNH R1674b: A crushed phalangeal bone, associated with the 2 proceedings specimens.
BMNH R 1678: An associated series of 18 vertebral centra of a young individual.
BMNH R1676: Slab showing the dorsal aspect of left coracoid.
BMNH R1677: A bone which is probably an ischium of an immature individual.
BMNH R1606: The slightly imperfect centrum of an anterior or middle cervical.
LYDEKKER, 1890
Locality: Isle of Portland, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon: Middle Purbeck.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Uppermost Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: 2 cervical centra.
PERRSON
Locality: Auvringhen, France.
Horizon: Upper Portlandian.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
Material:
Number: Not given: Vertebrae.
SAUVAGE, 1894
Locality: Boulannias, France.
Horizon: Upper Portlandian.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Tithonian Stage, Upper Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.
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Material:Number: Not given:
= Plesiosaurus macrodeirus SEELEY, 1869
Etymology:Holotype:
Locality:
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age:
Material:
= Plesiosaurus manselii HULKE, 1870
Etymology:
= Plesiosaurus manseli LYDEKKER, 1888 (sic)
= Muraenosaurus manselli SEELEY, 1874 (sic)
= Muraenosaurus manselii (HULKE, 1870) SAUVAGE, 1879
= Colymbosaurus manselii (HULKE, 1870) SEELEY, 1892Holotype: BMNH R 40106, originally catalogued (Lydekker 1889) 40106,
40107a, 40107b, 40108a, 42496 and 42496a.Locality: Cliffs east of Clavell's Tower, Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.
Material: Vertebrae, pieces of 2 humeri and several incomplete flat bones.
Note: According to Benton and Spencer, 1995,
Locality: Kimmeridge Bay, Gaulter Gap-Broad Bench, Dorset, England.
Horizon: Kimmeridge Clay, Early Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic.
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Species: svalbardensis (PERSSON, 1962) KNUTSEN, DRUCKENMILLER & HURUM,
2012a
= Tricleidus svalbardensis PERSSON, 1962 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: In reference to Svalbard Island, Norway.
Holotype: PMO A 27745
Locality: East slope of Konusdalen, southeast of Deltaneset, near the Sassen Fjord, West Spitzberg, Svalbard Island, Norway.
Horizon: Upper part of the Slottsmoya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Middle Volgian (Tithonian Stage), Upper Malm Epoch, Upper Late Jurassic.
Material: Vertebrae (dorsal, sacral and caudal vertebrae) partial pelvic girdle, one nearly complete, and one partial hind limb.
Referred material:
KNUTSEN, DRUCKENMILLER & HURUM, 2012a
PMO 216.838: Two partial hind limbs, two nearly complete caudal vertebrae, unprepared pelvic fragments and ribs.
PMO 218.377: Two partial limbs (possible fore and hind) and fragmentary vertebral remains.
ROBERTS, DRUCKENMILLER, DELSETT, & HURUM, 2016, 2017
PMO 222.663: 14 dorsal and 3 sacral vertebrae, a nearly complete caudal series, coracoids, partial interclavicle-clavicle comlex, both ilia, 4 propodials, most of the epipodials, and several more distal limb elements.