Describer

Melville, 1849

Time

Cretaceous Early Valanginian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Brachiosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Wealden Beds, Mantell\\\'s quarry\\\" at Whitman\\\'s Green, England

Fall Under

Pelorosaurus

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)

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.