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Cryonectes neustriacus
Taxonomy
Cryonectes neustriacus was named by Vincent et al. (2013). Its type specimen is MAE 2007.1.1(J), a partial skeleton (an incomplete skull and articulated mandible, and 10 associated vertebrae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Roche-Blain quarry, Fresney-le-Puceux, near Laize-la-Ville, which is in a Pliensbachian marine horizon in the Calcaire à Bélemnites Formation of France. It is the type species of Cryonectes.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Cryonectes neustriacus Vincent et al. figs. 2-10 |
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†Cryonectes neustriacus Vincent et al. 2013
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| P. Vincent et al. 2013 | Moderate-sized plesiosaurian (skull length: approximately 470 mm from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the mandible) presenting the following unique combination of characters: contacts between premaxillae and maxillae marked by a very slight constriction; snout well elongated; very thin anterior interpterygoid vacuity with pointed anterior and posterior margins; two ventrolateraly orientated low flanges on the posterior rami of the pterygoids; mandible with a long symphysis bearing seven tooth position and retaining a ventral mandibular ridge; cervical centra with relatively platycoelous articular surfaces; ventral sides of cervical centra almost flat, without ventral keel nor depression around the nutritive foramina. |
Measurements
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| References: Hampe 2005, Kiessling 2004 | |||||
Age range: Late/Upper Pliensbachian or 189.60000 to 183.00000 Ma
Collections: one only
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pliensbachian | France (Calvados) | Cryonectes neustriacus (type locality: 131488) |