Abyssosaurus nataliae
Abyssosaurus nataliae is the type and only species of Abyssosaurus.
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Thaumatodracon weidenrothi
Thaumatodracon weidenrothi is the type and only species of Thaumatodracon. The species name honours Kurt Wiedenroth, the amateur fossil hunter who discovered and collected the specimen.
Plesiosaurus macrocephalus
The holotype specimen (NHMUK PV R 1336) was first and last described by Owen, 1840. ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus is probably a juvenile rhomaleosaurid, and certainly doesn’t belong to the genus Plesiosaurus. However, pending revision of the taxon and referral to a different or other existing genus, it is still named ‘Plesiosaurus‘, following Owen.
Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus
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Avalonnectes arturi
Avalonnectes arturi is the type and only species of Avalonnectes.
Stratesaurus taylori
Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni
R. thorntoni was first described briefly by Andrews (1922a). Smith and Benson (2014) described and figured R. thorntoni in detail in a monograph on the holotype specimen.
Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus
Mike Taylor studied the holotype of R. zetlandicus for his Ph.D. thesis and subsequently published a description of the cranial anatomy (Taylor, 1992). Vincent and Smith (2010) referred the holotype of R. propinquus to R. zetlandicus