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Extinct genus of reptiles

Goniosaurus
Temporal range: Maastrichtian PreꞒ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Family: Elasmosauridae
Genus: Goniosaurus
Meyer, 1860
Type species
Goniosaurus binskhorsti
Meyer, 1860

Goniosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian age) of the Nekum Chalk, in the Netherlands. The only species so far described, G. binskhorsti is represented only by an isolated, compressed and slender tooth described by Hermman Meyer and a referred tooth and a cervical vertebra that shows that was an elasmosaurid, as many others Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs from Europe.

See also

References

  1. Meyer, H., 1860. Saurier aus der Tuff Kreide von Maestricht und Folx-les-Caves. Palaeontographica, 7: 241-244.
  2. Mulder, E. W. A., 1990. Ein Elasmosaurierzähn aus der oberen Kreide des St. Pietersberges bei Maastricht, Süd-Limburg, Niederlande. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 64 (1-2): 145-151.
  3. Mulder, E. W. A., 1985. Plesiosauriërs in de Limburgse Krijtzee. Natuurhistorisch Maandblad, 74 (5): 94-96.
  4. Bardet, Nathalie, and Pascal Godefroit. Plesiosaurus houzeaui Dollo, 1909 from the Upper Campanian of Ciply (Belgium) and a review of the Upper Cretaceous plesiosaurs from Europe. Bulletin de l’Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 65 (1995): 179-186.
Sauropterygia
Sauropsida
Sauropterygia
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Sauropterygia
Sauropterygia
Helveticosauridae?
Saurosphargidae
Placodontia
Cyamodontoidea
Eosauropterygia
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Helveticosaurus zollingeri Placochelys placodonta
Eosauropterygia
Eosauropterygia
Pachypleurosauria
Nothosauroidea
Simosauridae
Nothosauridae
Pistosauroidea
Plesiosauria
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Keichousaurus hui

Nothosaurus mirabilis

Pistosaurus longaevus
Plesiosauria
Plesiosauria
Rhomaleosauridae
Pliosauridae
Thalassophonea
Brachaucheninae
Plesiosauroidea
Microcleididae
Cryptoclidia
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Macroplata tenuiceps

Attenborosaurus conybeari

Hydrorion brachypterygius
Cryptoclidia
Cryptoclididae
Colymbosaurinae
Cryptoclidinae
Muraenosaurinae
Xenopsaria
Leptocleidia
Leptocleididae
Polycotylidae
Palmulasaurinae
Occultonectia
Polycotylinae
Dolichorhynchia
Elasmosauridae
Euelasmosaurida
Elasmosaurinae
Weddellonectia
Aristonectinae
Cryptoclidus eurymerus

Leptocleidus capensis

Elasmosaurus platyurus
Taxon identifiers
Goniosaurus


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