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Nothosaurus marchicus
Taxonomy
Nothosaurus marchicus was named by Koken (1893). Its type specimen is Lost part and MR R.2 counterpart, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Rüdersdorf, near Berlin: Orbicularis beds, which is in an Illyrian marine horizon in the Karlstadt Formation of Germany.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1893 | Nothosaurus marchicus Koken |
| 1914 | Nothosaurus crassus Schröder |
| 1914 | Nothosaurus oldenburgi Schröder |
| 1914 | Nothosaurus procerus Schröder |
| 1914 | Nothosaurus raabi Schröder |
| 1944 | Nothosaurus schroederi Huene |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus crassus Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus marchicus Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus oldenbourgi Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus procerus Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus raabi Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurus schroederi Kuhn p. 18 |
| 1996 | Nothosaurus marchicus Rieppel and Wild p. 34 |
| 2003 | Nothosaurus winterswijkensis Albers and Rieppel p. 738 figs. 1-4 |
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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 marchicus Koken 1893
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Invalid names: Nothosaurus crassus Schröder 1914 [synonym], Nothosaurus oldenburgi Schröder 1914 [synonym], Nothosaurus procerus Schröder 1914 [synonym], Nothosaurus raabi Schröder 1914 [synonym], Nothosaurus schroederi Huene 1944 [synonym], Nothosaurus winterswijkensis Albers and Rieppel 2003 [synonym]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel and R. Wild 1996 | A species of Nothosaurus of small overall size (skull with condylobasal length not exceeding 200 mm in the adult); rostrum relatively short and broad, rounded; five fangs in each premaxilla, the fifth slightly smaller than the preceding fangs; five small maxillary teeth preceding the paired maxillary fangs; external nares relatively short and broad, kidney-shaped; nasals broad and leaf-shaped, with radiating ornamentation; postfrontal with a distinct postorbital constriction; squamosal closely approaching or contacting the posterior end of the jugal; quadratojugal absent; ectopterygoid reaching far forward up to half the length of palatine | |
| P. C. H. Albers and O. Rieppel 2003 (Nothosaurus winterswijkensis) | A relative small species of Nothosaurus (condylobasal length of the skull 126.7 mm) with the fifth premaxillary tooth distinctly smaller than the preceding premaxillary fangs; three small maxillary teeth preceding the paired maxillary fangs; jugal broadly entering the posteroventral margin of the orbit; body of vomer extending backwards for a greater distance than the longitudinal diameter of the internal naris; pineal foramen located in a distinct depression (trough). |
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections (7 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Anisian | Netherlands (Gelderland) | Nothosaurus winterswijkensis, Nothosaurus marchicus (96875) | |
| Anisian | Germany (Thuringia) | Nothosaurus marchius (138118) | |
| Anisian | Germany | Nothosaurus schroederi, Nothosaurus crassus (138116) | |
| Illyrian | Germany | Nothosaurus marchius, Nothosaurus oldenburgi, Nothosaurus procerus, Nothosaurus raabi (type locality: 138117) | |
| Ladinian | Germany | Nothosaurus marchius (138120 138121) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Thuringia) | Nothosaurus marchius (138101) |