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The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2003

LESLIE F. NOÈ ,
JEFF LISTON  and
MARK EVANS
LESLIE F. NOÈ
Affiliation:
The Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK
JEFF LISTON
Affiliation:
Institute of Biological and Life Sciences (IBLS), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
MARK EVANS
Affiliation:
New Walk Museum, Leicester LE1 7EA, UK
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Abstract

A newly recognized left exoccipital-opisthotic of a Callovian pliosaur, derived from the Peterborough or lower Stewarby Members of the Oxford Clay Formation of Peterborough, is described and figured. This isolated bone is tentatively identified as belonging to an ‘adult’ individual of Liopleurodon ferox that is inferred to have had a skull length of 1.26 metres and an overall body length of 6.39 metres.

Keywords

JurassicCallovianSauropterygiaPlesiosauriabraincases
Type
Original Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 140 , Issue 4 , July 2003 , pp. 479 - 486
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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