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Yet again it was originally placed in an inappropriate genus: Ornithopsis is a Lower Cretaceous sauropod (first named for dorsal vertebrae), and there’s no reason at all to think that an Upper Jurassic humerus should be referred to a genus based on Cretaceous vertebrae.
Obscure dinosaurs of the Kimmeridge Clay Darren Naish 2006
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Yet again it was originally placed in an inappropriate genus: Ornithopsis is a Lower Cretaceous sauropod (first named for dorsal vertebrae), and there’s no reason at all to think that an Upper Jurassic humerus should be referred to a genus based on Cretaceous vertebrae.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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‘Ornithopsis’ manseli was named in 1888 for another isolated humerus, and again it appears to be from a brachiosaurid.
Obscure dinosaurs of the Kimmeridge Clay Darren Naish 2006
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‘Ornithopsis’ manseli was named in 1888 for another isolated humerus, and again it appears to be from a brachiosaurid.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The Early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs Ornithopsis and Eucamerotus from the Isle of Wight, England.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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