Macroplata

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

Macroplata is a rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Warwickshire, UK. Macroplata was named and briefly described by Swinton (1930a) based on a single skeleton from Harbury, Warwickshire, and the skeleton was redescribed in detail by Ketchum and Smith (2010). Photograph of Macroplata tenuiceps in situ in Harbury, Warwickshire. White (1940) referred the species Plesiosaurus longirostris to Macroplata, and...

Atychodracon

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

Holotype specimen of Atychodracon megacephalus in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery (from Swinton, 1948). The specimen was destroyed during the Second World War.

The genus Atychodracon was erected by Smith (2015) to accommodate ‘Rhomaleosaurus’ megacephalus, because it is generically separarate from Rhomaleosaurus sensu stricto (Smith and Dyke 2008). A. megacephalus is closely related to Eurycleidus and some authors have regarded A. megacephalus as a distinct species of Eurycleidus. Three dimensional scan with texture (colour) removed of plaster cast (BGS GSM 118410) of the...