上龙属
上龙属 化石时期:侏罗纪晚期,
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短颈上龙的复原图 | |
科学分类 | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | 爬行纲 Reptilia |
目: | †蛇颈龙目 Plesiosauria |
科: | †上龙科 Pliosauridae |
演化支: | †海猎龙类 Thalassophonea |
属: | †上龙属 Pliosaurus Owen, 1842 |
模式种 | |
短颈上龙 Pliosaurus brachydeirus Owen, 1842
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异名 | |
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上龙属(属名:Pliosaurus,意为“更甚的蜥蜴”)是一属已灭绝海生爬行动物[3],属于上龙科,生存于侏㑩纪晚期。上龙是种大型掠食性动物,以鱼类、头足类、以及其他海生爬行动物为食。[4]
下属物种
本属包括以下物种:
- 阿曼萨上龙 Pliosaurus almanzaensis O'Gorman et al., 2018
- Pliosaurus andrewsi Tarlo, 1960
- 短颈上龙 Pliosaurus brachydeirus Owen, 1841
- 短椎上龙 Pliosaurus. brachyspondylus (Owen, 1839)
- 卡氏上龙 Pliosaurus carpenteri Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013
- 冯氏上龙 Pliosaurus funkei Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012[5]
- Pliosaurus gamma Phillips, 1871
- Pliosaurus grandis (Owen, 1840)
- 凯氏上龙 Pliosaurus kevani Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013[6]
- 大鳍上龙 Pliosaurus macromerus (Philips, 1871)
- 巴塔哥尼亚上龙 Pliosaurus patagonicus Gasparini & O'Gorman, 2014
- 奇异上龙 Pliosaurus portentificus Noè et al., 2004
- 俄罗斯上龙 Pliosaurus rossicus (Novozhilov, 1948)
- 西伯雷上龙 Pliosaurus westburyensis Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013
参考资料
- ^ Benson, R. B. J.; Evans, M.; Smith, A. S.; Sassoon, J.; Moore-Faye, S.; Ketchum, H. F.; Forrest, R. Butler, Richard J , 编. A Giant Pliosaurid Skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE. 2013, 8 (5): e65989. PMC 3669260 . PMID 23741520. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065989.
- ^ Espen M. Knutsen. A taxonomic revision of the genus Pliosaurus (Owen, 1841a) Owen, 1841b. Norwegian Journal of Geology. 2012, 92 (2–3): 259–276. ISSN 0029-196X. Low resolution pdf (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) High resolution pdf (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- ^ Owen, R. 1841. Odontography. Hippolyte Bailliere, foreign booksellers to the Royal College of Surgeons, London. Vol. Part 2.: 282-284.
- ^ Noè, L. F., Smith, D. T. J. & Walton, D. I. (2004). "A new species of Kimmeridgian pliosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the nomenclature of Liopleurodon macromerus". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 115, 13-24.
- ^ Sea Monsters of the North: Day 11-Skull Discovered at Last! http://on.natgeo.com/P3Es3l via @NatGeoNewsWatch
- ^ Benson RBJ, Evans M, Smith AS, Sassoon J, Moore-Faye S, et al. 2013. A Giant Pliosaurid Skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE. 8(5): e65989. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065989