On the Pelorosaurus: an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile, whose remains are associated with those of the Iguanodon and other Saurians, in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex

Citation

Mantell, G. A. (1850). On the Pelorosaurus: an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile, whose remains are associated with those of the Iguanodon and other Saurians, in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 140: 379-390. doi:10.1098/rstl.1850.0017

Names first published here

• Pelorosaurus genus

Cited by genera

• Dinodocus

  Originally placed the Dinodocus material in Pelorosaurus.

• Pelorosaurus

  Erects Pelorosaurus on a large humerus from Tilgate Forest (read 14 Feb 1850); tentatively refers caudals from Owen's Cetiosaurus brevis material to the new genus.