Djupedalia
Djupedalia Temporal range: Tithonian
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Cryptoclididae |
Genus: | †Djupedalia Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012 |
Type species | |
†Djupedalia engeri Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012
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Djupedalia is an extinct genus of cryptoclidid[1][2] plesiosauroid plesiosaur known from the uppermost Jurassic of central Spitsbergen, Norway.[3] It is named after Øystein Djupedal, the former Minister of Education and Research who helped fund the fossil excavation.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "†Djupedalia Knutsen et al. 2012". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (February 2014). "Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition". Biological Reviews. 89 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1111/brv.12038. PMID 23581455. S2CID 19710180.
- ^ Espen M. Knutsen; Patrick S. Druckenmiller; Jørn H. Hurum (2012). "A new plesiosauroid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Volgian) of central Spitsbergen, Norway" (PDF). Norwegian Journal of Geology. 92 (2–3): 213–234. ISSN 0029-196X.
Categories:
- Cryptoclidids
- Tithonian life
- Late Jurassic plesiosaurs of Europe
- Jurassic Norway
- Fossils of Svalbard
- Agardhfjellet Formation
- Fossil taxa described in 2012
- Sauropterygian genera
- Plesiosaur stubs