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Cryptoclidus richardsoni (Lydekker, 1889)
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- 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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