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Leptocleidus capensis

Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Leptocleididae

Taxonomy
Plesiosaurus capensis was named by Andrews (1911). Its type specimen is SAM-PK 5822, a partial skeleton (Skull and various postcrania), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Picnic Bush, Swartkops River, which is in a Valanginian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Sundays River Formation of South Africa.

It was recombined as Peyerus capensis by Andrews (1911), Stromer (1935), Welles (1962); it was recombined as Leptocleidus capensis by Andrews (1922), Persson (1963), Cruickshank (1997), O'Keefe (2001).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Peyerus capensis Andrews
1911Plesiosaurus capensis Andrews p. 311 figs. 1-3 & Pl. 18
1922Leptocleidus capensis Andrews p. 296
1935Peyerus capensis Stromer p. 44
1962Peyerus capensis Welles p. 41
1963Leptocleidus capensis Persson p. 19
1997Leptocleidus capensis Cruickshank pp. 210-211
2001Leptocleidus capensis O'Keefe p. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
RankNameAuthor
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderPlesiosauriade Blainville 1835
superfamilyPlesiosauroideaWelles 1943
—Leptocleidia
familyLeptocleididae
genusLeptocleidus
speciescapensis()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Leptocleidus capensis Andrews 1911
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: aquatico
Depth habitat: surfaceo
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparouso
Created: 2009-07-20 06:05:48
Modified: 2011-08-12 01:58:15
Source: o = order
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Valanginian or 140.20000 to 136.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Valanginian140.2 - 136.4South Africa (Eastern Cape) Plesiosaurus sp. (type locality: 117446)