Genus: Stratesaurus BENSON, EVANS & DRUCKENMILLER, 2012
Etymology: Genus name from 'Strate', the name for Street recorded in teh Doomesday
Book, and Greek, sauros, "lizard."
Species: taylori BENSON, EVANS & DRUCKENMILLER, 2012
Etymology: In honor of Micheal A. Taylor, who caried out acid preparation
of OUMNH J.10337 during an earlier study of Street plesiosaurians.
= Thalassiodraon hawkinsi STORRS & TAYLOR,
1996 (referred material)
Holotype: OUMNH J.10337
Locality: Street, Somersetshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.
Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Lowermost Hettangian Stage, Lowermost Lias Epoch, Earliest Jurassic.
Material: Skull and partial postcranial skeleton including anterior cervical and pectoral vertebrae, a partial hindlimb and ilium.
Referred material:
AGT 11: Skull.
GSM 26035: A skull with anterior cervical vertebrae.