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Thaumatosaurus oolithicus Meyer, 1841

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The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom

  • Title: Thaumatosaurus oolithicus Meyer, 1841
  • Type status: Cited
  • State province: Calvados
  • Specific epithet: oolithicus
  • Scientific name authorship: Meyer, 1841
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Order: Plesiosauria
  • Locality: Caen
  • Latest period or highest system: Jurassic
  • Latest era or highest erathem: Mesozoic
  • Latest epoch or Highest series: Middle Jurassic
  • Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
  • Latest age or Highest age: Bathonian
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Identified by: Richard Lydekker; Lydekker
  • Higher geography: Europe; France; Calvados; Caen
  • Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Reptilia; Plesiosauria
  • Group: Great Oolite Group
  • Genus: Thaumatosaurus
  • 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: Bathonian
  • Country: France
  • Continent: Europe
  • Class: Reptilia
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