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Nothosaurus cymatosauroides

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae

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
YearName and author
1983Nothosaurus cymatosauroides Sanz
1993Nothosaurus cymatosauroides Sanz et al. p. 155

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderEosauropterygia
familyNothosauridaeBaur 1889
genusNothosaurusMünster 1834
speciescymatosauroidesSanz 1983

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: Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015, Hendy et al. 2009

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 - 235.0Spain (Tarragona) Nothosaurus cymatosauroides (type locality: 109710)