†Dolichorhynchops osborni Williston 1902 (plesiosaur)
Reptilia - Sauropterygia - Polycotylidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 100117
Alternative combination: Trinacromerum osborni
Synonym: Polycotylus osborni Watson 1951 (taxon 172355)
Full reference: S. W. Williston. 1902. Restoration of Dolichorhynchops osborni, a new Cretaceous plesiosaur. Kansas University Science Bulletin 1(9):241-244
Belongs to Dolichorhynchops according to F. R. O'Keefe 2004
Sister taxa: Dolichorhynchops bonneri, Dolichorhynchops herschelensis, Dolichorhynchops tropicensis, Plesiosaurus ichthyospondylus, Trinacromerum latimanus
Type specimens:
- Dolichorhynchops osborni: KUVP 1300, a skeleton (nearly complete skeleton). Its type locality is east of Wallace (PROXY), which is in a Campanian marine chalk in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas.
- Polycotylus osborni:
Ecology: aquatic carnivore