上龍屬
上龙属 化石时期:侏羅紀晚期,
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短頸上龍的復原圖 | |
科学分类 | |
界: | 动物界 Animalia |
门: | 脊索动物门 Chordata |
纲: | 爬行綱 Reptilia |
目: | †蛇頸龍目 Plesiosauria |
科: | †上龍科 Pliosauridae |
演化支: | †海猎龙类 Thalassophonea |
属: | †上龙属 Pliosaurus Owen, 1842 |
模式種 | |
短頸上龍 Pliosaurus brachydeirus Owen, 1842
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上龍屬(屬名:Pliosaurus,意為「更甚的蜥蜴」)是一属已滅絕海生爬行動物[3],屬於上龍科,生存於侏儸紀晚期。上龍是種大型掠食性動物,以魚類、头足类、以及其他海生爬行動物為食。[4]
下属物种
本属包括以下物种:
- 阿曼薩上龍 Pliosaurus almanzaensis O'Gorman et al., 2018
- Pliosaurus andrewsi Tarlo, 1960
- 短頸上龍 Pliosaurus brachydeirus Owen, 1841
- 短椎上龍 Pliosaurus. brachyspondylus (Owen, 1839)
- 卡氏上龍 Pliosaurus carpenteri Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013
- 馮氏上龍 Pliosaurus funkei Knutsen, Druckenmiller & Hurum, 2012[5]
- Pliosaurus gamma Phillips, 1871
- Pliosaurus grandis (Owen, 1840)
- 凱氏上龍 Pliosaurus kevani Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013[6]
- 大鰭上龍 Pliosaurus macromerus (Philips, 1871)
- 巴塔哥尼亞上龍 Pliosaurus patagonicus Gasparini & O'Gorman, 2014
- 奇異上龍 Pliosaurus portentificus Noè et al., 2004
- 俄羅斯上龍 Pliosaurus rossicus (Novozhilov, 1948)
- 西伯雷上龍 Pliosaurus westburyensis Benson, Smith, Sassoon, Moore-Faye, Ketchum, Forrest & Evans, 2013
參考資料
- ^ 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