CAMSM J.29596etc

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A partial postcranial skeleton with elements numbered CAMSM J.29596–29691 and J.59736–59743 (shortened in the literature to just “CAMSM J.29596etc). One of two syntype skeletons of Colymbosaurus megadeirus, the other being CAMSM J.63919....

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LEICT G221.1851

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A substantially complete skeleton exposed in dorsal view. The specimen was proposed as a neotype for Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (= Atychodracon megacephalus) (Cruickshank 1994b). This fossil, nicknamed the ‘Barrow Kipper’ after Barrow-upon-Soar where it was discovered (Taylor and Martin 1990), is on display at the New Walk Museum in Leicester, UK. This specimen has since become a referred specimen (Smith 2015)....

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Anguanax

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The skull of the Anguanax type specimen (from Cau & Fanti 2014)

Anguanax is the first articulated plesiosaur ever found in Italy. It is a basal thalassophonean pliosaur from the Late Jurassic (middle Oxfordian). The type and only known specimen (MPPL 18797) of Anguanax was originally described as an indeterminate pliosaurid (Cau and Fanti 2014), but was subsequently named after reanalysis by the same authors the following year (Cau and Fanti 2015)....

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