SAM K5822

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Skull and partial skeleton. The holotype specimen of Leptocleidus capensis, housed in the South African Museum, Cape Town....

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NHMUK PV R 4828

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Partial skeleton including the skull, partial vertebral column (including cervical, pectoral and dorsal vertebrae preserved articulated within a nodule), complete pectoral girdle, and humeri....

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MCZ 1285

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An incomplete skeleton (the famous, heavily reconstructed, Harvard ‘plasterosaurus’) from ‘Army Downs’, Australia. Referred to Kronosaurus, but Noè and Gómez-Pérez (2021) made this specimen the holotype of a new genus and species, Eiectus longmani. ...

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OU 12649

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An almost complete skull, almost complete vertebral column minus the posterior caudal vertebrae, almost complete ribcage, some gastralia, partial pelvic girdle and associated right hindlimb and fragmentary left hindlimb....

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UCMP 33912

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An almost complete skeleton. The holotype of Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae, discovered in the Panoche Hills by Mr. Frank C. Paiva in 1937, excavated by the University of California Museum of Palaeontology, Berkeley, and Fresno State College. A cast is on public display in the California Academy of Sciences....

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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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IVPP V 5869

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An incomplete postcranial skeleton consisting of 63 vertebrae, ribs, most of the pectoral and pelvic girdles, humeri and femora, and other limb elements....

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NHMUK PV OR 14550

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A partial skeleton – holotype specimen of Avalonnectes arturi. Preserved on a slab on display in the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen was formerly part of the Hawkins’ Collection, which the British Museum (=NHMUK) purchased in two lots in 1834 and 1840. The skull is kept in storage and is not on display with the rest of the skeleton....

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BRSMG Cb 2335

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A complete skeleton exposed in ventral view – the holotype specimen of A. megacephalus (BRSMG Cb 2335). The skeleton was housed in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, but it was destroyed by enemy action during the Blitz in World War II. However, surviving plaster casts are housed in the Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK R1309/1310); the...

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BRSMG Cb 2479

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A nearly complete skeleton, the holotype of Attenborosaurus. Destroyed during the Blitz in the Second World War. At least three casts of the specimen were made and survive today. One is on display in the Natural History Museum, London. There is also a damaged cast (specimen TCD.47763) in Trinity College, Dublin (Wyse Jackson 2004), and a cast in the...

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