Dolichorhynchops   WILLISTON 1903b  

Type Species

osborni

Species recorded

Dolichorhynchops herschelensis
Dolichorhynchops osborni
Dolichorhynchops sp.

Etymology

"long snout face" DOL-i-ko-RING-kops (Gr. dolikhos "long" + Gr. rhygkhos "snout, beak" + ops "face") (m) named for the "remarkably elongate and slender form" of the skull, with "the facial region much attenuated," resulting in a narrow, elongated snout, reminiscent of ichthyosaurs

Diagnosis    WILLISTON 1903b

Head elongate, the facial region much attenuated; teeth nearly uniform in size, small; prefrontals and postfrontal bones not joined; paritals extending into a high crest; supraocciptial bones separated; internal nares small, included between the vomer and the palatine only; palatines broadly separated throughout; a large vacuity between the pterygoids anteriorly; quadrate process of pterygoids short; neck but little longer than the head, composed of 19 or 20 vertebrae; all presacral vertebrae of nearly equal length, moderately concave, with vascualar foramina below; spines short, uniform in length; diapophyses of the dorsal vertebrae situated high up; coracoids with long epicoracoid process; clavicles and scapula free; episternum with an emargination in front and behind, the latter forming part of a large interclavicular foramen; three epipodial bones, all broader than long; ischium elongated; length 10 feet

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