Ogmodirus
Sign in to saveOgmodirus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur found in the Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas. The type species, Ogmodirus martini, was named by Samuel Wendell Williston and Roy Lee Moodie in 1913.
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Ogmodirus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur found in the Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) Greenhorn Limestone of Kansas. The type species, Ogmodirus martini, was named by Samuel Wendell Williston and Roy Lee Moodie in 1913.
==Discovery and naming== The holotype, KUVP 441, consists of a pelvic girdle, limb elements, and more than fifty cervical (neck) vertebrae from a juvenile discovered in Cloud County, Kansas by C. Boyce in 1909. KUVP 441 was named as Ogmodirus martini by Williston & Moodie (1913) and the specific name was emended to martinii by Moodie (1916), but the original name takes precedence. The holotype was described in detail by Williston & Moodie (1917).