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Re: [dinosaur] Sea reptile data search

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Institut Royal de Science Naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Naturhistorisch Museum.

Milan Natural History Museum (MNHM); The Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Milan, Italy.


Plioplatecarpus houzeaui (Dollo, 1889) Dollo, 1904

= Oterognathus houzeaui Dollo, 1889

Classification: Reptilia, Squamata, Mosasauridae, Plioplatecarpinae

Holotype: IRSNB R35 (Old IRSNB 3111); Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton

Referred material: IRNSB 3099, 3103, R 36 (old 3100),3107, 3108, 3155, 3160, 3859, 3154, 3152, 3130, 3122, R37:

size: ~ 5.5 meters long

diet: Piscivore/Carnivore.

age range: 70.6 to 66.043 Ma (Cretaceous, Early/Lower Maastrichtian)

location: Ciply, Hainaut Province, Belgium (50.4Â N, 3.9Â E: paleocoordinates 43.0Â N, 3.0Â E)

horizon: Mons Basin, Craie de Ciply Formation, Brown Phosphatic Chalk

paleoecology: Shallow marine carbonate setting.

References:

Dollo, L., 1889, Sur quelques mosasauriens nouveaux: Annales de la Societe scientifique de Bruxelles, v. 13, p. 68-69.

Dollo, L, 1889, Premiere note sur les mosasauriens de Mesvin: Societe de Belgium Geologique, Memiories v. 3, p. 271-304.

Dollo, L., 1904, Les Mosasauriens de la Belgique: Societe de Belgium Geologique, Memories vol. 18, p. 207-218.

  1. J. Kennedy. 1993. Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites from the Mons Basin and adajcent areas (Belgium). Bulletin de L'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 63:99-131.


Eoneustes bathonicus (Mercier, 1933) YOUNG, BRUSATTE, RUTA & DE ANDRADE, 2010

= Metriorhynchus bathonicus Mercier, 1933, Teleidosaurus bathonicus (Mercier, 1933) BUFFETAUT & THIERRY, 1977

Classification: Reptilia, Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchoidea. Metriorhynchidae (marine crocodile)

Holotype: LOST (destroyed in WWII)

size: ~3 meters long

diet: Piscivore/Carnivore.

age range: cymodoce ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Late Jurassic (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

                originally considered: Bathonian in age

location: Calvados, Lower Normandy, France (49.9Â N, 0.3Â W: paleocoordinates 40.6Â N, 9.5Â E)

horizon: (aka: Gracilineustes acutus type locality)

paleoecology: marine; lithology not reported

References:

  1. Mercier. 1933. Contribution lâÃtude des MÃtriorhynchidÃs (crocodiliens). Annales de PalÃontologie 22:99-119
  2. T. Young, S. L. Brusatte, M. Ruta and M. B. Andrade. 2010. The evolution of Metriorhynchoidea (Mesoeucrocodylia, Thalattosuchia): an integrated approach using geometric morphometrics, analysis of disparity, and biomechanics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(4):801-859


Pontosaurus kornhuberi Caldwell, 2006

= cf. Pontosaurus sp CALDWELL & DAL SASSO, 2004

= gen. indet. DAL SASSO & RENESTO, 1999

Classification: Reptilia, Squamata, Anguimorpha, Pythonomorpha, DOLICHOSAURIDAE

Holotype: MSNM V3662; Nearly complete skull and complete skeleton.

                Note: Has skin impressions.

                https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Pontosaurus_kornhuberi_4.JPG

size:  ~1 meter long

diet: Piscivore/Carnivore.

age range: Middle Cretaceous, middle Cenomanian

location: Left flank of the Ouadi al Gabour near the village of Nammoura, Kesrouaune Caza, Mohafazat, 10 km southeast of Hadjula 23 km northeast of Beirut, Hakel, Kesrouane Province, Lebanon. (34.1Â N, 35.7Â E: paleocoordinates 12.9Â N, 30.3Â E)

horizon: Sannine Formation, en NammoÃra, upper quarry (unit 3b) aka: al NammoÃra, al Gabour, AÃn el GÃrboÃr

paleoecology: lagoonal/restricted restricted shallow subtidal; tabular, intraclastic, gray, green wackestone shallow in Lebanon

Reference:

  1. W. Caldwell. 2006. A new species of Pontosaurus (Squamata, Pythonomorpha) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon and a phylogenetic analysis of Pythonomorpha. Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 34:1-42
  2. M. Dalla Vecchia and S. Venturini. 1999. The Middle Cenomanian Lagerstaette of Al Nammoura (KesrouÃne Caza, N. Lebanon). Rivista del Museo Civio di Scienzi Naturali "E. Caffi" 20(suppl.):75-77
On October 11, 2020 at 9:17 AM Gregory Paul <gsp1954@aol.com> wrote:

Am looking for data to calculate the total body lengths of the following -- 

Pontosaurus kornhuberi
Michael W. Caldwell (2006). "A new species of Pontosaurus (Squamata, Pythonomorpha) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon and a phylogenetic analysis of Pythonomorpha". Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. 34: 1â42.

Eoneustes bathonicus
J. Mercier. 1933. Contribution lâÃtude des MÃtriorhynchidÃs (crocodiliens). Annales de PalÃontologie 22:99-119

Plioplatecarpus houzeaui

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