Ogmodirus

Post author:Adam S. Smith
Post published:20/09/2018
Post category:Elasmosauridae Genus page Ogmodirus Plesiosauria Plesiosauroidea

'Ogmodirus' flipper (from Williston & Moodeie, 1917)

The type skeleton of ‘Ogmodirus’ was collected in 1909 by C. Boyce from the upper Greenhorn Limestone Formation (Lower Turonian, Upper Cretaceous) of Cloud County (near Aurora), Kansas (Storrs 1999, Schumacher and Everhart 2005). The specimen, KUVP 441, is a partial skeleton consisting of partial vertebral column (51 cervical vertebrae, 18 caudal vertebrae), limb, and girdle elements. Originally named...

Libonectes

Post author:Adam S. Smith
Post published:22/07/2018
Post category:Elasmosauridae Genus page Plesiosauria Plesiosauroidea

Libonectes was erected for ‘Elasmosaurus morgani’. The pectoral girdle and a forelimb of the holotype are figured (most recently by Welles 1962, fig. 12) but now lost (Carpenter 1999). Libonectes morgani (Welles 1949) is the type and only species. Type material of L. morgani (SMUSMP 69120) consists of a skull, cervical vertebrae and gastralia, from the Britton Formation, Eagle...