Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Alternative combination: Turneria seymouriensis
Synonym: Turneria seymourensis Chatterjee and Small 1989 [replaced name]
Full reference: S. Chatterjee and B. Creisler. 1994. Alwalkeria (Theropoda) and Morturneria (Plesiosauria), new names for preoccupied Walkeria Chatterjee, 1987 and Turneria Chatterjee and Small, 1989. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):142
Belongs to Morturneria according to J. P. O'Gorman et al. 2019
See also Chatterjee and Creisler 1994, Chatterjee and Small 1989, Gasparini et al. 2003, O'Gorman 2019, O'Keefe 2001 and O'Keefe et al. 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimens:
- Morturneria seymourensis: TTU P 9219, a partial skeleton (skull and cervical vertebrae)
- Turneria seymourensis: TTU P 9219, a partial skeleton (skull and cervical vetebrae). Its type locality is Seymour Island, Klb 9, which is in a Maastrichtian marine siltstone/carbonate in the López de Bertodano Formation of Antarctica.
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Morturneria seymourensis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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