Lectotype specimen NHMUK PV OR 2018, found in the Lower Lias strata, Street, Somerset, England.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Superorder:
†Sauropterygia
Order:
†Plesiosauria
Family:
†Pliosauridae
Genus:
†Thalassiodracon Storrs & Taylor, 1996
Species:
†T. hawkinsi
Binomial name
†Thalassiodracon hawkinsi
(Owen, 1838)
Synonyms
Plesiosaurus hawkinsii Owen, 1838
Thalassiodracon (tha-LAS-ee-o-DRAY-kon) is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid from the Pliosauridae that was alive during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (Rhaetian-Hettangian) and is known exclusively from the Lower Lias of England.[1] The type and only species, is Thalassiodracon (Plesiosaurus) hawkinsi (Owen, 1838).[2][3]
^Cite error: The named reference Storrs1996 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Owen, R. (1838). A description of Viscount Cole's specimen of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus (Conybeare). Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2, 663-666.
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