[D] Pelorosaurus [sG]
Describer
Mantell, 1850
Time
Jurassic Middle Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian Berriasian Cretaceous Early Valanginian Hauterivian Barremian Aptian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
England France Portugal
Fall Under
Pelorosaurus conybearei
Info
Pelorosaurus (Mantell , 1850) = Colossosaurus (Mantell, 1849 vide Torrens, 1997)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) = Cetiosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) >> Bothriospondylus elongatus (Owen, 1875) Bothriospondylus magnus (Owen, 1875) Oplosaurus armatus ? (Gervais, 1852)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus mackesoni (Owen, 1884) > Dinodocus mackesoni (Owen, 1884) = Morinosaurus typus (Sauvage, 1874)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus sp. (5) (Sauvage, 1900) > Pelorosaurus sp. (4) (Huene, 1929) > Pelorosaurus sp. (1) (Vadet & Rose, 1986)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (Hulke, 1874) >> Cetiosaurus humerocristatus (Hulke, 1874)
Pelorosaurus conybearei clearly documents the presence of a brachiosaurid in the Lower Cretaceous (Wealden) of England. There is no reason to believe that the caudal vertebrea found with the type humerus and included in the type by Mantell, 1850, but refered to variously as Cetiosaurus brevius (Owen, 1842) and Cetiosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) elsewhere, do not belong to the same species and not unlike to the same individual.
The only skull part currently referable to Pelorosaurus is the much-figured large spatulate tooth originally described as Oplosaurus armatus. It is about the same size and shape as those of Brachiosaurus. A pair of pubus of Pelorosaurus conybearei are originally named Ornithopsis eucamerotus (Hulke, 1882) .No bones of the hindlimb can be assigned to Pelorosaurus.
Mantell, 1850
Time
Jurassic Middle Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian Berriasian Cretaceous Early Valanginian Hauterivian Barremian Aptian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
England France Portugal
Fall Under
Pelorosaurus conybearei
Info
Pelorosaurus (Mantell , 1850) = Colossosaurus (Mantell, 1849 vide Torrens, 1997)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) = Cetiosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) >> Bothriospondylus elongatus (Owen, 1875) Bothriospondylus magnus (Owen, 1875) Oplosaurus armatus ? (Gervais, 1852)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus mackesoni (Owen, 1884) > Dinodocus mackesoni (Owen, 1884) = Morinosaurus typus (Sauvage, 1874)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus sp. (5) (Sauvage, 1900) > Pelorosaurus sp. (4) (Huene, 1929) > Pelorosaurus sp. (1) (Vadet & Rose, 1986)
Pelorosaurus > Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (Hulke, 1874) >> Cetiosaurus humerocristatus (Hulke, 1874)
Pelorosaurus conybearei clearly documents the presence of a brachiosaurid in the Lower Cretaceous (Wealden) of England. There is no reason to believe that the caudal vertebrea found with the type humerus and included in the type by Mantell, 1850, but refered to variously as Cetiosaurus brevius (Owen, 1842) and Cetiosaurus conybearei (Melville, 1849) elsewhere, do not belong to the same species and not unlike to the same individual.
The only skull part currently referable to Pelorosaurus is the much-figured large spatulate tooth originally described as Oplosaurus armatus. It is about the same size and shape as those of Brachiosaurus. A pair of pubus of Pelorosaurus conybearei are originally named Ornithopsis eucamerotus (Hulke, 1882) .No bones of the hindlimb can be assigned to Pelorosaurus.