NHMUK PV OR 14435

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An almost complete skeleton including an almost complete vertebral column and associated ribs, complete pectoral girdle poorly exposed and complete pelvic girdle with all four limbs complete and in articulation. Skull missing. Neotype of Eretmosaurus rugosus....

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NHMUK PV R 2860

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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 known” (Brown 1981, p257)....

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LEICT G221.1851

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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 has since become a referred specimen (Smith 2015)....

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