Brimosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Brimosaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
superordo = Sauropterygia
unranked = Eusauropterygia
ordo = Plesiosauria
familia =
genus = "Brimosaurus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Brimosaurus grandis" (type) Leidy, 1854

"Brimosaurus" (meaning "strong lizard") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of what is now Arkansas. The type species is "Brancasaurus brancai", first named by Joseph Leidy in 1854. The name "Brimosaurus] " is a "nomen dubium": the fossils consist of only a few isolated vertebrae, and in 1952 Welles proposed that "Brimosaurus" was actually synonymous with "Cimoliasaurus" (which itself is based on dubious material).

References

* Leidy, J. (1854). "Remarks on exhibiting to the Society four vertebrae of a huge extinct Saurian from Arkansas" "Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia", 7(3): 72.

External links

* [http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Leidy1854.html "Brimosaurus"] from Oceans of Kansas