Species: gigas SCHRODER, 1885 (nomen vanum)
= Elasmosaurus gigas (SCHRODER, 1885) PERSSON, 1963 (nomen vanum)
Etymology:

Holotype:

Locality: Altfelde near Elbing, Stare Pole, Poland (old Prussia).

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Indeterminate dorsal centrum.

Referred material:

PERSSON, 1959

Locality: Ignaberga, Skane (Scania) Province, Sweden.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Campanian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UM Rp. 14: Thoracic-lumbar centrum.

 

PERSSON, 1962

Locality: The limestone quarry at Hanaskog, about 15 km N Kristianstad, Skane (Scania) Province, Sweden.

Horizon: “Mucronata Senonian”.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Campanian Stage, Upper Senonian Subepoch, Upper Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

LO 4074 t: incomplete vertebral centra.

LO 4075 t: Fragment of another vertebral centrum.

LO 4076 t: Fragment of a propodial.