Colymbosaurus
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
plesiosaur
Plesiosaur
Plesiosauroidea is an extinct clade of carnivorous plesiosaur marine reptiles. Plesiosauroids, are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods...
described in 1874 by Seeley
Harry Seeley
Harry Govier Seeley was a British paleontologist.-Career:Seeley was born in London, the son of Richard Hovill Seeley, goldsmith, and his second wife Mary Govier. He attended classes at the Royal School of Mines, Kensington before becoming an assistant to Adam Sedgwick at the Woodwardian Museum,...
. The only bones found include 74 vertebrae, ribs, coracoids, a scapula and fore and hind limbs (fins
FINS
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). This specimen may be the missing body of Kimmerosaurus
Kimmerosaurus
Kimmerosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the family Cryptoclididae, closely related to Tatenectes.-Etymology:...
, which would make this a cryptoclid instead of an elasmosaurid. Colymbosaurus may be a senior synonym of Kimmerosaurus.