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Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889)

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889)
  • Type status: Cast of holotype
  • State province: England
  • Specific epithet: richardsoni
  • Scientific name authorship: (Lydekker, 1889)
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Plesiosauria
  • Locality: In a brick field between Montevideo House and Chickerell, at a depth of 30 feet
  • Latest period or highest system: Jurassic
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Mesozoic
  • Latest epoch or Highest series: Late Jurassic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Latest age or Highest age: Oxfordian
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Richard Lydekker; Lydekker
  • Higher geography: Europe; United Kingdom; England; Dorset; Weymouth
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria; Plesiosauroidea; Cryptoclididae
  • Group: Ancholme Group
  • Genus: Cryptoclidus
  • Formation: Oxford Clay Formation
  • Family: Cryptoclididae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Jurassic
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Mesozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Middle Jurassic
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Earliest age or Lowestst age: Callovian
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Continent: Europe
  • Class: Reptilia
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