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Crymocetus, the Glossary

Crymocetus (meaning "cold sea monster") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of Sussex, England.^[1]

26 relations: Animal, Cervical vertebrae, Chalk Group, Chordate, Cimoliasaurus, Cretaceous, Crymocetus, Edward Drinker Cope, Elasmosauridae, England, Extinction, Incertae sedis, Late Cretaceous, List of plesiosaur genera, Plesiosaur, Plesiosaurus, Pliosauridae, Rhomaleosauridae, Richard Lydekker, Richard Owen, Samuel Paul Welles, Sauropsida, Sauropterygia, Species, Sussex, Timeline of plesiosaur research.
Fossil taxa described in 1869
Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs of Europe

Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Cervical vertebrae

In tetrapods, cervical vertebrae (vertebra) are the vertebrae of the neck, immediately below the skull.

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The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the Upper Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England.

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Chordate

A chordate is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.

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Cimoliasaurus

Cimoliasaurus was a plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of New Jersey.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Crymocetus

Crymocetus (meaning "cold sea monster") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of Sussex, England. Crymocetus and Crymocetus are fossil taxa described in 1869, late Cretaceous plesiosaurs of Europe and plesiosaur stubs.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist.

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Elasmosauridae

Elasmosauridae is an extinct family of plesiosaurs, often called elasmosaurs.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Incertae sedis

of uncertain placement or problematica is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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List of plesiosaur genera

This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms.

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Plesiosaur

The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.

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Plesiosaurus

Plesiosaurus (Greek: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Early Jurassic.

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Pliosauridae

Pliosauridae is a family of plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the Latest Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous (Rhaetian to Turonian stages) of Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Rhomaleosauridae

Rhomaleosauridae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Earliest Jurassic to the latest Middle Jurassic (Hettangian to Callovian stages) of Europe, North America, South America and possibly Asia.

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Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker (25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.

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Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

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Samuel Paul Welles

Samuel Paul Welles (November 9, 1907 – August 6, 1997) was an American palaeontologist.

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Sauropsida

Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles).

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Sauropterygia

Sauropterygia ("lizard flippers") is an extinct taxon of diverse, aquatic reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Triassic before all except for the Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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Timeline of plesiosaur research

This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of marine reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic Era.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crymocetus

Also known as Plesiosaurus bernardi.