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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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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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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CAMSM J.29596etc

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A partial postcranial skeleton with elements numbered CAMSM J.29596–29691 and J.59736–59743 (shortened in the literature to just “CAMSM J.29596etc). One of two syntype skeletons of Colymbosaurus megadeirus, the other being CAMSM J.63919....

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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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