Eretmosaurus was coined by Harry Govier Seeley for Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen, 1840.[2]Richard Owen had coined the name P. rugosus for numerous vertebrae from the Early Jurassic Blue Lias of Gloucestershire and other unspecified locations in the UK.[3] Later, Owen described a headless skeleton (NHMUK 14435) that he assigned to P. rugosus,[4] and Seeley used NHMUK 14435 as the basis for coining a new genus for this species.
↑Brown, David S., and Nathalie Bardet. "Plesiosaurus rugosus Owen, 1840 (currently Eretmosaurus rugosus; Reptilia, Plesiosauria): proposed designation of a neotype." Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51.3 (1994): 247-249.
↑Seeley, H. G., 1874, Note on some of the generic modifications of the plesiosaurian pectoral arch: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1874, p. 436-449.
↑R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the Ninth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Reports on the State of Science 43-126
↑R. Owen. 1865. A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations. Part I, Sauropterygia. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 17(75):1-40
