Genus: Pantosaurus MARSH, 1893 (nomen dubium)
Etymology: Greek, pant- (pan), “all” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: All lizard.
= Parasaurus MARSH, 1891 non MEYER, 1857
Etymology: Greek, para-, “near” and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Near lizard.

Species: striatus (MARSH, 1891) MARSH, 1893
Etymology:
= Parasaurus striatus MARSH, 1891 (nomen dubium)

Holotype: YPM 543

Locality: Freeze Out Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Redwater Shale Member (Baptanodon beds), Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: Fragmentary skeleton.
Note: Was thought to belong to an Ichthyosaur.

 

Referred material:

O'KEEFE, STREET, CAVIGELLI, SOCHA & O'KEEFE, 2009

Locality: North of the town of Greybull, Bighorn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Upper Member, Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

USNM 536965: 4 dorsals, 3 sacrals, 8 caudals, complete pelvis, numerous rigs and gastroliths.

Note: Has 13 complete rings and fragments of 4 more vertebrae of an embryo of the ichthyosaur Ompthalmosaurus natans.

 

O’KEEFE & WAHL, 2003a

Locality: Off 33 Mile Road near Roughlock, Natrona County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Redwater Shale Member (Baptanodon beds), Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

UW 15938: Associated vertebral column and basioccipital.

 

WAHL, 2012

Locality: Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.

Horizon: Redwater Shale Member, Upper Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

WEC-SS01: Fragmentary skeleton of a juvenile.

Note: With stomach contents with a mass of coleoid hooklets and disarticulated cardiocerid ammonite jaws.

 

WILHELM & O'KEEFE, 2010 (published in 2011)

Locality: North of the town of Shell, Bighorn County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Upper Member, Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian Stage, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material:

USNM 53693: 3 articulated posterior cervical vertebrae and fragments of a fourth, and the last probably the first pectoral.

 

= Muraenosaurus reedii MEHL, 1912 (nomen dubium)
Etymology:

Holotype: UW 5544

Locality: Freeze Out Mountains, Carbon County, Wyoming.

Horizon: Redwater Shale Member (Baptanodon beds), Sundance Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Oxfordian, Lower Malm Epoch, Late Jurassic.

Material: A fairly complete right coracoid and a part of a left one, parts of the right and left pubes and ischia, numerous dorsal and caudal vertebrae, several ventral ribs, and a nearly complete left pectoral paddle.