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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Colymbosaurus

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Left hindlimb of Colymbosaurus megadeirus (CAMSM J.29596etc), modified from Benson and Bowdler (2014)

Colymbosaurus is a colymbosaurine (derived cryptoclidid) from the Late Jurassic of the UK and Svalbard, Norway. Two valid species are known, C. megadeirus from the UK, and C. svalbardensis from Svalbard, Norway. The genus is known from the Kimmeridgian, Tithonian, and possibly early Berriasian (Late Jurassic–possibly Early Cretaceous). Benson and Bowdler (2014) revised the genus Colymbosaurus and summarised its complicated...

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