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Brachauchenius lucasi ✝

Description

Brachauchenius (meaning 'short neck') is an extinct genus of pliosaurid that lived in North America (United States) during the Late Cretaceous.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius_lucasi, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4968421https://www.gbif.org/species/4968421
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)100100https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100100
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Pliosauridae : Brachauchenius : Brachauchenius lucasi
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Sauropterygia : Pliosauridae : Brachauchenius : Brachauchenius lucasi
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
orderSauropterygiaOwen 1861
-Pistosauria
-Plesiosauria
familyPliosauridaeSeeley 1874
-ThalassophoneaBenson and Druckenmiller 2014
subfamilyBrachaucheninae
genusBrachaucheniusWilliston 1903
speciesBrachauchenius lucasiWilliston 1903
Generic NameBrachauchenius
Scientific NameBrachauchenius lucasi Williston, 1903
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Brachauchenius lucasispeciesbelongs to Brachaucheniusstated with evidenceWilliston, 1903
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance101 - 94 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance93.5 - 89.3 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Plesiosauria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Plesiosauria)
Dietcarnivore (based on Plesiosauria)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Plesiosauria)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite (based on Plesiosauria)
Primary Reference (PBDB)S. W. Williston. 1903. North American plesiosaurs, part 1. Geological Series Field Museum of Natural History 3(1):1-77
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius_lucasi

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1903Brachauchenius lucasi Williston
1962Brachauchenius lucasi Welles pp. 3, 54
1996Brachauchenius lucasi Carpenter p. 261 fig. 1
2001Brachauchenius lucasi O'Keefe p. 14

References

Williston S. W. (1903) North American plesiosaurs, part 1, Geological Series Field Museum of Natural History 3 1, 1-77
Welles S. P. (1962) A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 44 1, 1-96
Carpenter K. (1996) A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America, Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201 2, 259-287
O'Keefe F. R. (2001) A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), Acta Zoologica Fennica 213, 1-63
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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