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Pelorosaurus
Taxonomy
Pelorosaurus was named by Mantell (1850). Its type is Cetiosaurus conybeari.
It was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Seeley (1887) and Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Brachiosaurus by Galton (1983); it was considered a nomen vanum by Blows (1995); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Quenstedt (1852); to Dinosauria by Pictet (1853); to Deinosauria by Mantell (1854); to Crocodilia by Owen (1859); to Iguanodontidae by Gervais (1859); to Harpagosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Dinosaurii by Quenstedt (1867); to Dinosauria by Lydekker (1877); to Atlantosauridae by Lydekker (1888), Sauvage (1895), Lydekker (1895), Sauvage (1896), Sauvage (1898), Sauvage (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Nopcsa (1901); to Cardiodontidae by Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Sauvage (1906); to Cetiosauridae by Huene (1908), Huene (1908), Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Sauropoda by Quenstedt (1882), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Marsh (1895) and Sauvage (1914); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Morosauridae by Dollo (1884), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), von Zittel (1911), Lull (1924) and Charig (1967); to Cetiosaurinae by Kaever and Lapparent (1974); to Brachiosaurinae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1929), Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Coombs and Molnar (1981) and Santafé et al. (1982); to Brachiosauridae by Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Paton (1975), Molnar (1980), Carroll (1988), McIntosh (1990), McIntosh (1990), Cuny et al. (1991), Buffetaut et al. (1992) and Blows (1998); and to Titanosauriformes by Salgado and Calvo (1997), Upchurch and Martin (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004) and Mannion and Calvo (2011).
It was synonymized subjectively with Cetiosaurus by Seeley (1887) and Dollo (1889); it was synonymized subjectively with Brachiosaurus by Galton (1983); it was considered a nomen vanum by Blows (1995); it was considered a nomen dubium by Naish and Martill (2001).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Quenstedt (1852); to Dinosauria by Pictet (1853); to Deinosauria by Mantell (1854); to Crocodilia by Owen (1859); to Iguanodontidae by Gervais (1859); to Harpagosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Dinosaurii by Quenstedt (1867); to Dinosauria by Lydekker (1877); to Atlantosauridae by Lydekker (1888), Sauvage (1895), Lydekker (1895), Sauvage (1896), Sauvage (1898), Sauvage (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Nopcsa (1901); to Cardiodontidae by Marsh (1896), Marsh (1898), Sauvage (1900) and Sauvage (1906); to Cetiosauridae by Huene (1908), Huene (1908), Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Sauropoda by Quenstedt (1882), Sauvage (1882), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Marsh (1895) and Sauvage (1914); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Morosauridae by Dollo (1884), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), von Zittel (1911), Lull (1924) and Charig (1967); to Cetiosaurinae by Kaever and Lapparent (1974); to Brachiosaurinae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927), Huene (1929), Romer (1956), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Coombs and Molnar (1981) and Santafé et al. (1982); to Brachiosauridae by Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Paton (1975), Molnar (1980), Carroll (1988), McIntosh (1990), McIntosh (1990), Cuny et al. (1991), Buffetaut et al. (1992) and Blows (1998); and to Titanosauriformes by Salgado and Calvo (1997), Upchurch and Martin (2003), Upchurch et al. (2004) and Mannion and Calvo (2011).
Species
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1850 | Pelorosaurus Mantell p. 381 |
1852 | Pelorosaurus Quenstedt p. 115 |
1853 | Pelorosaurus Pictet p. 473 |
1854 | Pelorosaurus Mantell p. 684 |
1859 | Pelorosaurus Gervais p. 468 |
1859 | Pelorosaurus Owen p. 36 |
1866 | Pelorosaurus Haeckel p. CXXXVI |
1867 | Pelorosaurus Quenstedt p. 146 |
1877 | Pelorosaurus Lydekker pp. 39-40 |
1882 | Pelorosaurus Quenstedt p. 188 |
1882 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 35 |
1884 | Pelorosaurus Dollo p. 298 |
1884 | Pelorosaurus Marsh p. 68 |
1885 | Pelorosaurus Marsh p. 764 |
1888 | Pelorosaurus Lydekker p. 145 |
1890 | Pelorosaurus Zittel p. 712 |
1893 | Pelorosaurus Winkler p. 101 |
1895 | Pelorosaurus Lydekker pp. 335-336 |
1895 | Pelorosaurus Marsh |
1895 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 469 |
1896 | Pelorosaurus Marsh p. 242 |
1896 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 47 |
1898 | Pelorosaurus Marsh p. 158 |
1898 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 8 |
1900 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 417 |
1901 | Pelorosaurus Nopcsa p. 206 |
1906 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 498 |
1908 | Pelorosaurus Huene p. 296 |
1909 | Pelorosaurus Arldt p. 262 |
1909 | Pelorosaurus Huene p. 14 |
1911 | Pelorosaurus von Zittel p. 287 |
1914 | Pelorosaurus Sauvage p. 254 |
1924 | Pelorosaurus Lull p. 235 |
1927 | Pelorosaurus Huene p. 123 |
1928 | Pelorosaurus Nopcsa p. 184 |
1929 | Pelorosaurus Huene p. 116 |
1956 | Pelorosaurus Romer p. 621 |
1964 | Pelorosaurus Tatarinov p. 547 |
1966 | Pelorosaurus Romer p. 370 |
1967 | Pelorosaurus Charig p. 713 |
1970 | Pelorosaurus Steel p. 68 |
1970 | Pelorosaurus Swinton p. 172 |
1974 | Pelorosaurus Kaever and Lapparent p. 524 |
1975 | Pelorosaurus Paton p. 17 |
1980 | Pelorosaurus Molnar p. 137 |
1981 | Pelorosaurus Coombs, Jr. and Molnar p. 357 |
1982 | Pelorosaurus Santafé et al. p. 97 |
1988 | Pelorosaurus Carroll |
1990 | Pelorosaurus McIntosh p. 55 |
1991 | Pelorosaurus Cuny et al. p. 335 |
1992 | Pelorosaurus Buffetaut et al. p. 12 |
1997 | Pelorosaurus Salgado and Calvo p. 45 |
1998 | Pelorosaurus Blows p. 34 |
2003 | Pelorosaurus Upchurch and Martin p. 229 |
2004 | Pelorosaurus Upchurch et al. p. 266 |
2011 | Pelorosaurus Mannion and Calvo |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Pelorosaurus Mantell 1850
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†Pelorosaurus conybeari Melville 1849
†Pelorosaurus praecursor Sauvage 1876
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875 |
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Tithonian to the top of the Early/Lower Albian or 150.80000 to 109.00000 Ma
Collections (3 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Late/Upper Tithonian - Early/Lower Berriasian | France (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) | P. sp. (92145) | |
Late/Upper Valanginian - Early/Lower Hauterivian | United Kingdom (England) | Cetiosaurus conybeari (52672) | |
Aptian - Early/Lower Albian | United Kingdom (England) | P. sp. (146643) |