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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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