Seeleyosaurus

Seeleyosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, Toarcian
Cast of Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris fossil with reconstructed parts based on the holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Microcleididae
Genus: †Seeleyosaurus
White, 1940
Type species
†Seeleyosaurus guilelmiimperatoris
(Dames, 1895)
Synonyms
  • Microcleidus guilelmi imperatoris Menner, 1992
  • Plesiosaurus guilelmi imperatoris Fraas, 1910 non Dames, 1895
  • Plesiosaurus imperatoris guilelmi Menner, 1992
  • Plesiosaurus guilelmiimperatoris Dames, 1895
  • Seeleyosaurus holzmadensis White, 1940

Seeleyosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from Germany and possibly also Russia.

Two species were known: the type, S. guilelmiimperatoris, and the now obsolete species S. holzmadensis,[1] which has since been absorbed into S. guilelmiimperatoris.

  1. ^ White, T. E. (1940). Holotype of Plesiosaurus longirostris Blake and classification of the plesiosaurs. Journal of Paleontology 14(5):451-467