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Extinct genus of reptiles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Santonian of Alabama and Mississippi.[1] One species is known, which is D. vestutus.
Discosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous, | |
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Holotype vertebrae of D. vestutus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Elasmosauridae |
Genus: | †Discosaurus Leidy, 1851 |
Type species | |
†Discosaurus vetustus Leidy, 1851 |
The holotype, eleven vertebrae, was discovered by Joseph Jones in Alabama and Mississippi, and was named and described as Discosaurus vestutus by Leidy (1851).[2] Two more specimens from New Jersey were described and were later re-classified as belonging to Cimoliasaurus magnus by Leidy (1870b).[3]
Leidy (1870b) later argued that Discosaurus was the same animal as Elasmosaurus.[3]
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