• Source: Discosaurus

Discosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Santonian of Alabama and Mississippi. One species is known, which is D. vestutus.




Discovery and naming


The holotype, eleven vertebrae, was discovered by Joseph Jones in Alabama and Mississippi, and was named and described as Discosaurus vestutus by Leidy (1851). Two more specimens from New Jersey were described and were later re-classified as belonging to Cimoliasaurus magnus by Leidy (1870b).
Leidy (1870b) later argued that Discosaurus was the same animal as Elasmosaurus.




See also


Timeline of plesiosaur research
List of plesiosaurs




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Discosaurus
• Elasmosaurus
• 1851 in paleontology
• List of plesiosaur genera
• List of the prehistoric life of Alabama
• Eutaw Formation
• List of the Mesozoic life of Alabama
• Batropetes