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Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis
Taxonomy
Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis was named by Rieppel (1989). Its type specimen is PIMUZ T 3931, a skeleton, and it is a compression fossil. 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. It is the type species of Serpianosaurus.
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1989 | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis Rieppel p. 3 figs. 1-10 |
1995 | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis Rieppel and Lin p. 35 |
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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.
†Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis Rieppel 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988 |
Collections (13 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Anisian | Switzerland (Ticino) | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (86828) | |
Anisian - Ladinian | Switzerland (Ticino) | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (86838 86839 86840) | |
Anisian - Ladinian | Switzerland (Kanton Tessin) | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (86837) | |
Illyrian | Switzerland (Ticino) | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (86830 86831 86832 86833) | |
Illyrian - Fassanian | Switzerland | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (type locality: 122057) | |
Fassanian | Switzerland (Ticino) | Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis (86834 86835 86836) |