Djupedalia engeri
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Plesiosauroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: †Cryptoclididae
Genus: †Djupedalia
Species: †Djupedalia engeri
Name
edit- †Djupedalia engeri Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012: 215
Holotype: PMO 216.839, semiarticulated skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur including a partial lower jaw and incomplete left quadrate and squamosal; a partial cervical and dorsal vertebral series; several articulated cervical ribs; disarticulated cervical and dorsal neural arches; disarticulated dorsal ribs and gastralia; an incomplete pectoral girdle and two partial forelimbs; both pubes and one incomplete hindlimb.
Type locality and horizon: “The northeastern slope of Janusfjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway (78.33689⁰N 15.85945⁰E). 20 metres below the Dorsoplanites Bed, Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation, Janusfjellet. Dorsoplanites ilovaiskyi to Dorsoplanites maximus ammonite zones, Middle Volgian (Tithonian).”
References
editPrimary references
edit- Knutsen, E.M., Druckenmiller, P.S. & Hurum, J.H. 2012. A new plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92(2–3): 213–234. Reference page.