Megacephalosaurus
| Megacephalosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Holotype skull (FHSM VP 321) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
| Clade: | †Thalassophonea |
| Subfamily: | †Brachaucheninae |
| Genus: | †Megacephalosaurus Schumacher et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Megacephalosaurus eulerti Schumacher et al., 2013 | |
Megacephalosaurus is an extinct genus of brachauchenine[1] pliosaurid plesiosaur known from the early Late Cretaceous Carlile Shale (middle Turonian stage) of Russell County, Kansas, USA. It contains a single species, Megacephalosaurus eulerti.[2]
Megacephalosaurus eulerti reconstructed skull in the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center in Woodland Park, Colorado
See also
References
- ↑ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews: n/a. doi:10.1111/brv.12038.
- ↑ Schumacher, B. A.; Carpenter, K.; Everhart, M. J. (2013). "A new Cretaceous Pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Carlile Shale (middle Turonian) of Russell County, Kansas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (3): 613. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.722576.
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