PMO A27745

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A partial skeleton comprising the posterior postcranium – the holotype of Colymbosaurus svalbardensis. It was found accidentally in 1931 by “three English physicians, Dr. Freeze, Dr. Maller and Dr. Paul, who studied the influenza in Spitzbergen” (Persson 1962)(p. 67). The skeleton was displayed in the Palaeontological Museum, Oslo, with the arrangement of the bones based on a photograph of the...

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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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