Brancasaurus

Genus: Author: Wegner 1914 Taxon status: Age: Cretaceous Horizon (rock units): Cretaceous Classification: Plesiosauria → Plesiosauroidea → Cryptoclidia → Xenopsaria → Leptocleidia
Etymology: In honor of Wilhelm von Branca (1844-1929), German paleontologist, Greek, sauros, 'lizard': Branca's lizard
Genus:
Brancasaurus
Author:
Wegner, 1914
Etymology:
In honor of Wilhelm von Branca (1844-1929), German paleontologist, Greek, sauros, 'lizard': Branca's lizard
Classification:

Sauropterygia
Eosauropterygia
Eusauropterygia
Pistosauroidea
Pistosauria
Plesiosauria
Pliosauroidea

Age:
Under construction
Location:
Under construction
Referred material (sp.):
-
Type species:

B. brancai

Under construction

Skeleton of Brancasaurus in side view. From Sachs et al. (2016)
Skull of Brancasaurus in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view (from Wegner 1914)