Haematosaurus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. Fossils have been found from Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France of Jurassic age.[1] It was originally thought to be a plesiosaur, and the type species was initially assigned to the genus Plesiosaurus in 1874, although it was later reassigned to the new genus in 1934.[2][3] It is now known to have been a marine crocodylomorph.[4] Due to the fragmentary nature of the material associated with the genus, it is currently regarded as a nomen dubium.
| Haematosaurus Temporal range: Jurassic
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| Genus: | Haematosaurus Kuhn, 1934
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References
edit- ^ Sauvage, H. E. (1880). Synopsis des poissons et des reptiles des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-mer. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France 13:524-547.
- ^ Sauvage, H. E. (1874). Memoire sur les dinosauriens et les crocodiliens des terrains jurassiques de Boulogne-sur-Mer. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, second series 10:1-58.
- ^ Kuhn, O. (1934) Sauropterygia: Fossilia Catalogous 69:1-127.
- ^ Sepkoski, J. J. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560
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