Hauffiosaurus

Hauffiosaurus
Temporal range: Early Jurassic, 182.7–180.7 Ma
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Entire skeleton in ventral view of H. zanoni.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Pliosauridae
Genus: †Hauffiosaurus
O'Keefe, 2001
Species
  • †H. longirostris (Tate & Blake, 1876)
  • †H. tomistomimus Benson et al., 2011
  • †H. zanoni O'Keefe, 2001 (type)
Synonyms

Hauffiosaurus is an extinct genus of Early Jurassic (early Toarcian stage) pliosaurid plesiosaur known from Holzmaden of Germany and from Yorkshire of the United Kingdom. It was first named by Frank Robin O’Keefe in 2001 and the type species is Hauffiosaurus zanoni.[1] In 2011, two additional species were assigned to this genus: H. longirostris and H. tomistomimus.[2]

  1. ^ Frank Robin O’Keefe (2001). "A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)" (PDF). Acta Zool. Fennica. 213: 1–63.
  2. ^ Roger B. J. Benson; Hilary F. Ketchum; Leslie F. Noè; Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK" (PDF). Palaeontology. 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x. S2CID 55436528. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-01-26. Retrieved 2019-07-06.