[D] Pelorosaurus conybearei [T]
Describer
Melville, 1849
Time
Cretaceous Early Valanginian Hauterivian Barremian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Wealden Beds, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, England
Fall Under
Pelorosaurus
Info
Typespecies
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)
Based on a row of four associated anterior caudal vertebrae (collected from \\\"Mantell\\\'s quarry\\\" at Whitman\\\'s Green (Valanginian), one distal caudal, and an isolated chevron of distinctly sauropod (brachiosaur?) appearance. Pelorosaurus conybearei is an isolated large humerus collected from Mantell\\\'s quarry. It has no proven association with Cetiosaurus conybearei, but both could be reasonably supposed to come from a brachiosaur-like sauropod.
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.
Melville, 1849
Time
Cretaceous Early Valanginian Hauterivian Barremian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Wealden Beds, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, England
Fall Under
Pelorosaurus
Info
Typespecies
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)
Based on a row of four associated anterior caudal vertebrae (collected from \\\"Mantell\\\'s quarry\\\" at Whitman\\\'s Green (Valanginian), one distal caudal, and an isolated chevron of distinctly sauropod (brachiosaur?) appearance. Pelorosaurus conybearei is an isolated large humerus collected from Mantell\\\'s quarry. It has no proven association with Cetiosaurus conybearei, but both could be reasonably supposed to come from a brachiosaur-like sauropod.
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.