After 1850, more specimens continued to be assigned to both "Pelorosaurus" and "Cetiosaurus", and both were studied and reported on extensively in the scientific literature. Slowly a tendency developed to subsume fragmentary sauropod material from the Jurassic of England under the designation "Cetiosaurus", while assigning incomplete European Cretaceous sauropod finds to "Pelorosaurus". "Pelorosaurus" thus came to be a typical wastebasket taxon for any European sauropod of this period. However, in recent years much work has been done to rectify the confusion.