Morinosaurus
Morinosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from an unnamed formation of Kimmeridgian-aged rocks from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Département du Pas-de-Calais, France. It is an obscure tooth genus sometimes referred to the Early Cretaceous English wastebasket taxon Pelorosaurus.
History and taxonomy
The French paleontologist H. E. Sauvage based this genus on a single worn tooth, apparently now lost, which he compared to those of Hypselosaurus. Oddly, despite illustrations of the tooth, and the implications of comparing it to a titanosaur with narrow-crowned teeth, it was included as a synonym of Pelorosaurus in two major reviews. Pelorosaurus, being a putative brachiosaurid, is assumed to have had broad-crowned teeth.Age, however, was not an issue, because it was referred to the possible Pelorosaurus species P. manseli, which was also from the Upper Jurassic. The most recent review considers it to be a nomen dubium without further comment.
Sauvage also suggested that a partial right humerus belonged to the type individual.