Marmarospondylus
Sign in to saveMarmarospondylus ("marble [reference to the Forest Marble Formation] vertebra") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic deposits in the English Midlands.
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Vinony files it under Bathonian dinosaurs, Dinosaur genera and Dinosaurs of the United Kingdom.
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- Parent taxon
- Macronaria
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- Marmarospondylus
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- start time
- 168000000-
- end time
- 166000000-
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Marmarospondylus ("marble [reference to the Forest Marble Formation] vertebra") is a dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur from Middle Jurassic deposits in the English Midlands.
The type species, Marmarospondylus robustus, was described by Richard Owen as a species of the Late Jurassic genus Bothriospondylus in 1875. The holotype, NHMUK R.22428, a dorsal vertebra, was found in the Bathonian-age Forest Marble Formation at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Owen himself in an addendum to the same publication coined Marmarospondylus for B. robustus, presumably due to its being older than B. suffossus. Recent publications have treated Marmarospondylus as a dubious member of Macronaria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marmarospondylus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.