Peloneustes philarchus     SEELEY 1869   

Genus


Etymology

"power-loving," probably alluding to its proportionately big head and jaws

Specimens


British Geological Survey Collection
BGS 85866right femur
Museum of Le Havre - coll. J. Couvelard
MLH(JC) not knownIncomplete pelvic girdle
New Walk Museum, Leicester
LEICT G2.1998.12left Femur
LEICT G2.1998.20left Humerus
LEICT G418.1956.43left femur
LEICT G418.1956.45left Femur
LEICT G418.1956.55left Humerus
LEICT G418.1956.59.0left humerus brown, broken and repaired, somewhat crushed 440x250x1115mm
LEICT G418.1956.62.1left Femur
LEICT G418.1956.62.2right Femur
LEICT G418.1956.63.1right Humerus
LEICT G418.1956.63.2right Humerus
LEICT G418.1956.77right Humerus
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
PET R.13right Humerus
PET R.188limb bones
PET R.23left Femur
PET R.25right humerus
PET R.270propodial
PET R.65left Femur
Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge
SMC Cast47837Fragmentary skeleton
SMC J46913Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton
The Natural History Museum, London
BMNH R 1253Anterior part of the mandible, 6 teeth, and numerous fragments, several vertebral centra from the dorsal and caudal regions, portions of ribs, portions of the pectoral and pelvic girdles, imperfect fore paddles, and nearly complete hind paddles.
BMNH R 2437Atlas, axis, 17 cervical vertebrae, some with neural arches and ribs still in situ, 2 petorals, 24 dorsals, and 1 caudal mostly wanting the neural arches, ribs, scapulae, coracoids, humeri, radii, ulnae, ilium, pubes, ischia, femur, tibiae, femur, tibiae,
BMNH R 2438Atlas, axis, 19 cervical vertebrae, 2 pectorals, 24 or 25 dorsals, and 18 or 19 caudal vertebrae, numerous cervical and dorsal ribs, imperfect scapulae and coracoids, humeri, ilia, pubes, ischia, and femora
BMNH R 2439Basioccipital, quadrate, mandible, numerous teeth, atlas, axis, 18 cervical vertebrae wanting the neural arches, and ribs, also some centra of dorsal and caudal vertebrae, a few cervical and sacral ribs, scapulae, ilia, and paddle-bones
BMNH R 2440Imperfect skull and mandible, atlas, centra of 19 cervical, 26 dorsals and 19 caudals, some cervical ribs, numerous portions of the pectoral and pelvic girdles, and fore and hind paddles
BMNH R 2441Incomplete skull, fairly complete mandible, portions of the atlas, and the centra of 19 cervical, 28 dorsal and 16 caudal centra, all wanting their arches and ribs, imperfect left scapula and coracoid, ilia, and pubes.
BMNH R 24426 cervical vertebrae, scapulae, and interclavicle, left ilium, and numerous paddle-bones
BMNH R 2443Mandible and hind paddles except for femur of a large individual
BMNH R 2444Fragments of skull, nearly complete mandible, 6 centra of dorsal vertebrae, fragments of ribs, almost complete and little crushed right coracoid and scapula
BMNH R 2445Basioccipital, 1 exoccipital, atlas, axis, and the centra of 13 cervicals, all wanting the neural arches and ribs, numerous separate cervical ribs, portions of the coracoids of a juvenile
BMNH R 2679Skull, mandible, teeth, atlas, axis, 12 cervical vertebrae, ribs, radius, ulna, and greater part of the remaining bones of one fore paddle
BMNH R 3317Fossilized contents of the stomach lying within ribs
BMNH R 3318Skull, mandible, 21 or 22 cervical, 2 or 3 cervical, 2 or 3 pectoral, 20 dorsal, 28 caudal vertebrae, ribs, dorsal and ventral, scapulae, coracoids, humeri, ilia, pubes, right ischium, and right femur
BMNH R 3803Skull and mandible
BMNH R 3891 Skull, mandible, atlas, and axis, and 16 cervical, 30 pectorals, dorsal, and ?sacral, 16 caudal vertebrae numerous separate neural arches, cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal ribs, fore paddles, ilia, hind paddles
BMNH R 3897Coracoids and left scapula.
University of Liverpool
LIVUNI 4544Almost complete pelvic girdle, both femora, one humerus, a number of paddle bones (tibia, fibula, tibiale, fibulare, intermedium and ten phalangeal bones)
LIVUNI 4545a number of bones of the vertebral column; atlas/axis, 13 cervical vertebrae
Universität Tübingen
GPIT uncataloguedSkull and fragmentary skeleton
unknown
not knownVertebrae














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