Alternative combination: Nothosaurus latifrons
Synonyms: Cymatosaurus (Germanosaurus) silesiacus Schrammen 1899 [objective synonym], Cymatosaurus silesiacus Schrammen 1899 [objective synonym]
Full reference: G. Gürich. 1884. Ueber einige Saurier des obershlesischen Muschelkalkes [On some saurians from the Upper Silesian Muschelkalk]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 36:125-144
Belongs to Cymatosaurus according to P. M. Sander et al. 2014
See also Gürich 1884, Kuhn 1971, Rieppel 1997 and Rieppel 1999
Sister taxa: Cymatosaurus erikae, Cymatosaurus erythreus, Cymatosaurus fridericianus, Cymatosaurus gracilis, Cymatosaurus minor, Cymatosaurus multidentatus, Proneusticosaurus madelungi, Proneusticosaurus silesiacus
Type specimens:
- Cymatosaurus latifrons: SMNS 10109 (neotype), a skull. Its type locality is Gogoliner Schichten, Muschelkalk, Chorzow, which is in an Anisian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Wellenkalk Formation of Poland.
- Cymatosaurus silesiacus:
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Poland (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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