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COLYMBOSAURUS
(co-lym-bo-sore-us)
Colymbosaurus
Named By: Harry Govier Seeley in 1874
Time Period: Callovian to late Tithonian
Location: England, Dorset - Jurassic Coast, Kimmeridge Clay
Size: Uncertain due to incomplete fossil materia
Diet: unavailable
Fossil(s): Only partial post cranial remains including vertebrae, ribs, limbs, and parts of the shoulder girdle
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Sauropterygia | Plesiosauria | Plesiosauroidea |
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Colymbosaurus is a genus of cryptoclidid plesiosaur from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of the UK and Svalbard, Norway. There are two currently recognized species, C. megadeirus and C. svalbardensis.

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