Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae
Full reference: O. Rieppel. 1989. A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 323(1212):1-73
Belongs to Serpianosaurus according to O. Rieppel and K. Lin 1995
See also Rieppel 1989
Sister taxon: Serpianosaurus germanicus
Type specimen: PIMUZ T 3931, a skeleton. Its type locality is Point 902, Monte San Giorgio, unspecified bed, which is in an Illyrian/Fassanian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal dolomite/shale in the Besano Formation of Switzerland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Switzerland (13 collections)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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