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Neusticosaurus toeplitschi

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae

Taxonomy
Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi was named by Nopsca (1928). Its type specimen is Nr. 201, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kellerberg Quarry, which is in a Longobardian marine limestone in the Partnach Formation of Austria. It is the type species of Psilotrachelosaurus.

It was recombined as Neusticosaurus toeplitschi by Rieppel and Lin (1995).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi Nopsca p. 37
1993Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi Rieppel p. 4
1995Neusticosaurus toeplitschi Rieppel and Lin p. 35

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
superfamilyPachypleurosauroidea
familyPachypleurosauridae(Nopcsa 1928)
genusNeusticosaurus()
speciestoeplitschi()

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: marinesubo
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:38:36
Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range: Longobardian or 242.00000 to 235.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Austria (Karnten) Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi (type locality: 195572)