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Article: The Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaurs Ornithopsis and Eucamerotus from the Isle of Wight, England

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 38
Part: 1
Publication Date: June 1995
Page(s): 187 197
Author(s): William T. Blows
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BLOWS, W. T. 1995. The Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid dinosaurs Ornithopsis and Eucamerotus from the Isle of Wight, England. Palaeontology38, 1, 187–197.

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Abstract

The lectotype of Ornithopsis is usually placed within the Brachiosauridae, but is unlike any other material that has been referred to the genus. This referred material is also brachiosaurid but is regarded as belonging to the genus Eucamerotus which was originally established without a type species. Eucamerotus foxi sp. nov. is erected for this material, and a holotype and five paratypes are designated. Eucamerotus is placed within the Brachiosauridae. Several genera of sauropod dinosaurs, previously established from the Lower Cretaceous Wealden formation of the Isle of Wight, are nomina vana as they are based on inadequate type material. All described Wealden sauropod material other than dorsal vertebrae should be described as Sauropoda Incertae Sedis or Brachiosauridae Incertae Sedis.
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