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Nothosaurus mirabilis
Taxonomy
Nothosaurus mirabilis was named by Münster (1834). Its type specimen is BT uncatalogued, a partial skeleton (anterior part of the lower jaw and most of the postcranial skeleton), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Oschenberg, near Laineck, which is in a Ladinian marine horizon in Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1834 | Dracosaurus bronni Auct |
| 1834 | Nothosaurus bergeri Meyer pp. 29-33 figs. Gö 756-1 |
| 1834 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Münster |
| 1847 | Nothosaurus muensteri Meyer |
| 1855 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Meyer p. 15 |
| 1855 | Nothosaurus muensteri Meyer p. 20 |
| 1855 | Nothosaurus bergeri Meyer p. 150 |
| 1859 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Owen p. 143 |
| 1860 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Owen p. 210 |
| 1861 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Owen p. 229 |
| 1869 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Seeley p. 134 |
| 1889 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Lydekker p. 288 |
| 1898 | Nothosaurus muensteri Spangenberg p. 407 |
| 1921 | Nothosaurus bergeri Edinger pp. 29-33 figs. Gö 756-1 |
| 1928 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Perrier p. 3090 |
| 1934 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Swinton p. 62 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus muensteri Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1996 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Rieppel and Wild pp. 55-58 |
| 2008 | Nothosaurus mirabilis Chrzastek p. 232 fig. 6J |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Nothosaurus mirabilis Münster 1834
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Invalid names: Dracosaurus bronni Auct 1834 [synonym], Nothosaurus bergeri Meyer 1834 [synonym], Nothosaurus muensteri Meyer 1847 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel and R. Wild 1996 | A species of Nothosaurus of intermediate size with an adult condylobasal skull length of up to 460 mm; rostrum long and slender with parallel lateral edges; length-to-width ratio of mandibular symphysis 1.5-1.7; five fangs on each premaxilla; four small maxillary teeth preceding the paired maxillary fangs; rostral constriction weakly expressed; external nares long and slender; upper temporal fenestra elongate, with a constricted anterior corner and with the maxillary tooth row extending to a level below its midpoint; high neural spines on dorsal vertebrae. |
Measurements
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections (11 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Anisian | Germany (Thuringia) | Nothosaurus mirabilis (138118) | |
| Anisian | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | Nothosaurus mirabilis (138123) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Bavaria) | Nothosaurus mirabilis (138087 138106) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Nothosaurus mirabilis (138089) | |
| Ladinian | Germany | Nothosaurus mirabilis (59927 type locality: 138096 138097 138124) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Nothosaurus mirabilis (106357) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Thuringia) | Nothosaurus bergeri (106359) |