Complete skeleton. Neotype of Cryptoclidus eurymerus proposed by Brown (1981) due to the holotype being lost. The missing holotype was a forelimb from the Oxford Clay of Bedford, England, in the collection of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge. The neotype NHMUK PV R 2860 is "One of the most complete 'adult' plesiosaur skeletons…
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…