Marmarosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Infraclass:
Archosauromorpha
(unranked):
Mesoeucrocodylia
Suborder:
Thalattosuchia
Family:
Teleosauridae
Genus:
Marmarosaurus

Owen, 1840–1845
Species
  • M. obtusus Owen, 1840–1845 (type)

Marmoarsaurus is an extinct genus of teleosaurid thalattosuchian. The genus and type species, M. obtusus, were named by Richard Owen in his 1840–1845 volume Odontography, the genus in the text,[1] the species in a caption.[2] Owen provided little information on the taxon beyond that it was based on a tooth from the Forest Marble. Woodward (1885) later noted that the tooth was from Wiltshire and had come from the collection of Dr. Channing Pearce, and commented "Genus and species imperfectly characterized, and apparently ignored in all later works."[3]

References

  1. ↑ Owen, R. 1840–1845. Odontography. Hippolyte Bailliere, London, United Kingdom. Volume 1:p. 291.
  2. ↑ Owen, R. 1840–1845. Odontography. Hippolyte Bailliere, London, United Kingdom. Volume 2:p. 20, plate 75A (figures 5A and 5B).
  3. ↑ Woodward, Arthur Smith (1885). "On the literature and nomenclature of British fossil Crocodilia". The Geological Magazine. 3 (2): 508 (fold-out table).


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