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Cetarthrosaurus
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.6 MaScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: †Ichthyosauria Node: †Thunnosauria Genus: †Cetarthrosaurus
Seeley, 1896Species: †C. walkeri Binomial name Cetarthrosaurus walkeri
Seeley, 1896Cetarthrosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur known from the eastern United Kingdom. It was collected from the Cambridge Greensand Formation, dating to late Albian or early Cenomanian stage, of the Early Cretaceous-Late Cretaceous boundary. Cetarthrosaurus was first named by Harry G. Seeley in 1896 and the type species is Cetarthrosaurus walkeri.[1]
References
- ^ Harry G. Seeley (1873). "On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 29: 505–507.
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