Hauffiosaurus

Post author:Adam S. Smith
Post published:17/10/2020
Post category:Genus page Plesiosauria Pliosauridae Pliosauroidea

Holotype (Hauff Uncatalogued) of Hauffiosaurus zanoni as preserved in ventral view. Scale bar = 1 m. From Vincent (2011)

Hauffiosaurus is a basal pliosaurid known from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of the UK and Germany. Hauffiosaurus is a medium to large sized plesiosaur (H. zanoni = 3.4 m, H. tomistomimus, 4.23 m, H. longirostris = 4.83 m) (Smith and Lomax 2019), with a relatively long neck for a pliosaur, and an elongate narrow snout. The genus Hauffiosaurus was named...

Meyerasaurus

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

The holotype specimen of Meyerasaurus (SMNS 12478) from the Posidonia-Schiefer, Holzmaden, Germany.

M. victor was originally described and figured by Fraas (1910). Historically, M. victor has been regarded as a species of Rhomaleosaurus and is often associated in the literature under the defunct name ‘Thaumatosaurus’. See my article about this history of ‘Thaumatosaurus‘ here. Smith and Vincent (2010) identified M. victor as generically distinct from Rhomaleosaurus and erected the new name...