Djupedalia engeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Plesiosauroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Archelosauria Superordo: †Sauropterygia Ordo: †Plesiosauria Subordo: Plesiosauroidea

Familia: †Cryptoclididae
Genus: †Djupedalia
Species: †Djupedalia engeri

Name

• †Djupedalia engeri Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012: 215

Holotype: PMO 216.839, semiarticulated skeleton of a juvenile plesiosaur including a partial lower jaw and incomplete left quadrate and squamosal; a partial cervical and dorsal vertebral series; several articulated cervical ribs; disarticulated cervical and dorsal neural arches; disarticulated dorsal ribs and gastralia; an incomplete pectoral girdle and two partial forelimbs; both pubes and one incomplete hindlimb.

Type locality and horizon: “The northeastern slope of Janusfjellet, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway (78.33689⁰N 15.85945⁰E). 20 metres below the Dorsoplanites Bed, Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation, Janusfjellet. Dorsoplanites ilovaiskyi to Dorsoplanites maximus ammonite zones, Middle Volgian (Tithonian).”

References

Primary references

• Knutsen, E.M., Druckenmiller, P.S. & Hurum, J.H. 2012. A new plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 92(2–3): 213–234. Reference page.