Crymocetus
Sign in to saveCrymocetus (meaning "cold sea monster") is an extinct genus of Reptilia from the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of Sussex, England. It is only known from the type species, which is C. bernardi.
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Vinony files it under Fossil taxa described in 1869, Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs of Europe and Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope.
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Crymocetus (meaning "cold sea monster") is an extinct genus of Reptilia from the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group of Sussex, England. It is only known from the type species, which is C. bernardi.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype consists of a single posterior cervical vertebra which was discovered in the Chalk Group in Sussex, England. It was first named as Plesiosaurus bernardi by Owen (1850). However, Cope (1869) re-studied the holotype and decided that P. bernardi warranted its own genus, which he named Crymocetus.
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