Attenborosaurus
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Attenborosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic |
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| Cast of the holotype fossil, Natural History Museum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Family: | †Pliosauridae |
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†Attenborosaurus Bakker, 1993 |
| Species: | †A. conybeari |
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Attenborosaurus conybeari (Sollas, 1881) |
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Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari. The genus is named after David Attenborough, the species after William Conybeare.
The following cladogram follows an analysis by Benson & Druckenmiller (2014).
Attenborosaurus
"Pliosaurus" andrewsi
"Liopleurodon" rossicus
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