Poekilopleuron
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Poekilopleuron (meaning "varied ribs") is a genus of tetanuran dinosaur, which lived during the middle Bathonian of the Jurassic, about 168 to 166 million years ago. The genus has been used under many different spelling variants, although only one, Poekilopleuron, is valid. The type species is P. bucklandii, named after William Buckland, and many junior synonyms of it have also been erected. Little material is currently known, as the holotype was destroyed in World War II, although many casts of the material still exist.
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Poekilopleuron | |
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Cast of the holotype gastralia, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | Theropoda |
Family: | †Megalosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Afrovenatorinae |
Genus: | †Poekilopleuron Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836 |
Type species | |
†Poekilopleuron bucklandii Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836 | |
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