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Pachypleurosauria
Taxonomy
Pachypleurosauria is a suborder.
It was assigned to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel (2000), Dalla Vecchia and Avanzini (2002), Liu et al. (2011), Renesto et al. (2014), Lin et al. (2019), Klein et al. (2022), Hu et al. (2024).
It was assigned to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel (2000), Dalla Vecchia and Avanzini (2002), Liu et al. (2011), Renesto et al. (2014), Lin et al. (2019), Klein et al. (2022), Hu et al. (2024).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Pachypleurosauria Rieppel |
| 2002 | Pachypleurosauria Dalla Vecchia and Avanzini p. 219 |
| 2011 | Pachypleurosauria Liu et al. p. 293 |
| 2014 | Pachypleurosauria Renesto et al. |
| 2019 | Pachypleurosauria Lin et al. p. 3 |
| 2022 | Pachypleurosauria Klein et al. p. 7 |
| 2024 | Pachypleurosauria Hu et al. p. 2 |
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Subor. †Pachypleurosauria
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G. †Dianmeisaurus Shang and Li 2015
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†Dianmeisaurus gracilis Shang and Li 2015
†Dianmeisaurus mutaensis Hu et al. 2024
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| J. Liu et al. 2011 | "Small- to medium-sized Eosauropterygia with preorbital region of skull distinctly longer than postorbital region; upper temporal fossa present and distinctly smaller than orbit; supraoccipital exposed more or less horizontally at posterior end of parietal skull table; trough on dorsal surface of retroarticular process present; vertebral centrum with parallel lateral edges; pachyostosis of dorsal ribs present; posterior process on (T-shaped) interclavicles rudimentary or absent; entepicondylar foramen present; radius longer than ulna." |
Measurements
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Kiessling 2004, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Age range: base of the Pelsonian to the top of the Longobardian or 244.24000 to 237.00000 Ma
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Induan - Anisian | Myanmar | Pachypleurosauria indet. (224588) | |
| Anisian | China (Guizhou) | Pachypleurosauria indet. (100295) | |
| Anisian | China (Yunnan) | Dianmeisaurus mutaensis (232975) | |
| Pelsonian | Italy (Trentino) | Pachypleurosauria indet. (99307) | |
| Pelsonian | China (Yunnan) | Dianmeisaurus gracilis (123839) | |
| Fassanian | Switzerland | Pachypleurosauria indet., Prosantosaurus scheffoldi (117530) | |
| Longobardian | Italy | Odoiporosaurus teruzzii (116567) |