Brancasaurus Wegner, 1914
Brancasaurus has been cassified as a basal Elasmosaurid but new studies question this long held assumption.
Classification
Sauropterygia --> Eosauropterygia --> Eusauropterygia --> Pistosauroidea --> Plesiosauria --> Plesiosauroidea
B. brancai Wegner, 1914 (Type and only species)
Material
Type material: GPMUM unspecified; complete mounted skeleton including skull.
Referred material: none.
Age and Location
Rio del Lago Formation, Lower Carnian (Triassic), about 2 km NW of Dogna, Province of Udine, Italy.
Bobosaurus images
Skull of Brancasaurus in dorsal and lateral view, and showing the tip of the snout (C) in ventral view (from Wegner, 1914)
