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Pliosaurus macromerus Phillips, 1871

The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Pliosaurus macromerus Phillips, 1871
  • Type status: Cited
  • State province: England
  • Specific epithet: macromerus
  • Scientific name authorship: Phillips, 1871
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Plesiosauria
  • 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
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Richard Lydekker; Lydekker
  • Higher geography: Europe; United Kingdom; England; Oxfordshire; Oxford
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria; Pliosauroidea; Pliosauridae
  • Group: Ancholme Group
  • Genus: Pliosaurus
  • Formation: Kimmeridge Clay Formation
  • Family: Pliosauridae
  • Earliest period or lowest system: Jurassic
  • Earliest era or lowest erathem: Mesozoic
  • Earliest epoch or lowest series: Late Jurassic
  • Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Continent: Europe
  • Class: Reptilia
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