Poekilopleuron

Poekilopleuron; Temporal range: Middle Bathonian,
	Cast of the holotype gastralia, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	Theropoda
Family:	†Megalosauridae
Subfamily:	†Afrovenatorinae
Genus:	†Poekilopleuron; Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836
Type species
	†Poekilopleuron bucklandii; Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1836
Synonyms
	Genus synonyms Poecilopleuron Bronn, 1837 (nomen nudum) ; Poikilopleuron Owen, 1842 ; Poecilopleurum Bronn, 1849 ; Poicilopleuron Joseph Leidy, 1870 ; Species synonyms Poikilopleuron bucklandi Owen, 1842 ; Poecilopleurum bucklandi Bronn, 1849 ; Poicilopleuron bucklandi Leidy, 1870 ; Megalosaurus bucklandi Hulke, 1879 ; Megalosaurus poikilopleuron Huene, 1926 ; Poekilopleuron bucklandi White, 1973 ; Poecilopleuron bucklandi Welles & Long, 1974 ;

Poekilopleuron (meaning "varied ribs") is a genus of tetanuran dinosaur, which lived during the middle Bathonian of the Jurassic, about 168 to 166 million years ago. The genus has been used under many different spelling variants, although only one, Poekilopleuron, is valid. The type species is P. bucklandii, named after William Buckland, and many junior synonyms of it have also been erected. Little material is currently known, as the holotype was destroyed in World War II, although many casts of the material still exist.

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