Thalassiodracon

Not to be confused with Thalassodraco.

Thalassiodracon
Temporal range: Rhaetian - Hettangian
Lectotype specimen NHMUK PV OR 2018, found in the Lower Lias strata, Street, Somerset, England.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Plesiosauria
Family: †Pliosauridae
Genus: †Thalassiodracon
Storrs & Taylor, 1996
Species:
†T. hawkinsii
Binomial name
†Thalassiodracon hawkinsii
(Owen, 1838)
Synonyms

Thalassiodracon (tha-LAS-ee-o-DRAY-kon) is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid from the Pliosauridae that was alive during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (Rhaetian-Hettangian) and is known exclusively from the Lower Lias of England.[1] The type and only species, is Thalassiodracon (Plesiosaurus) hawkinsii (Owen, 1838).[2][3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Storrs1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Owen, R. (1838). A description of Viscount Cole's specimen of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus (Conybeare). Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2, 663-666.
  3. ^ Paleobiology Database