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Nothosaurus cymatosauroides
Discussion
Diagnosis from Rieppel 2000
Taxonomy
Nothosaurus cymatosauroides was named by Sanz (1983) [A small nothosaur with a relatively short and broad rostrum; upper temporal fossae 2.3 times longer than the longitudinal diameter of the orbit; laterally flaring squamosals.]. Its type specimen is MGSB M-503 and M-504, a skull (part and counterpart of a horizontally split skull), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Montral-Alcover quarries, which is in a Longobardian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Muschelkalk Formation of Spain.
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1983 | Nothosaurus cymatosauroides Sanz |
1993 | Nothosaurus cymatosauroides Sanz et al. p. 155 |
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†Nothosaurus cymatosauroides Sanz 1983
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available