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Nothosauridae
Reptilia - Sauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Taxonomy
Nothosauridae was named by Baur (1889).
It was assigned to Sauropterygia by Lydekker (1889) and Zittel (1890); to Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Nothosauroidea by Young (1965); to Eusauropterygia by Rieppel and Wild (1996); to Sauropterygia by Jiang et al. (2006); to Nothosauria by Carroll (1988), Rieppel (1994) and Chrzastek (2008); to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel (1997), Rieppel (1998), Rieppel (2001), Albers and Rieppel (2003) and Klein and Albers (2009); to Nothosauria by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Rieppel and Mazin (1997) and Liu et al. (2014); and to Nothosauria by Rieppel (2000) and Hinz et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Sauropterygia by Lydekker (1889) and Zittel (1890); to Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910); to Nothosauroidea by Young (1965); to Eusauropterygia by Rieppel and Wild (1996); to Sauropterygia by Jiang et al. (2006); to Nothosauria by Carroll (1988), Rieppel (1994) and Chrzastek (2008); to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel (1997), Rieppel (1998), Rieppel (2001), Albers and Rieppel (2003) and Klein and Albers (2009); to Nothosauria by Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Rieppel and Mazin (1997) and Liu et al. (2014); and to Nothosauria by Rieppel (2000) and Hinz et al. (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1885 | Nothosaurus cuvieri Quenstedt p. 215 figs. Plate 16, figs 2-6, 12-15 |
| 1889 | Nothosauridae Baur |
| 1889 | Nothosauridae Lydekker p. 287 |
| 1890 | Nothosauridae Zittel p. 478 |
| 1898 | Nothosaurus cuvieri Spangenberg p. 407 |
| 1910 | Nothosauridae Jaekel p. 335 |
| 1946 | Nothosauridae Kuhn p. 59 |
| 1965 | Nothosauridae Young p. 344 |
| 1966 | Nothosauridae Kuhn p. 112 |
| 1988 | Nothosauridae Carroll |
| 1994 | Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 10 fig. 1 |
| 1996 | Nothosauridae Rieppel and Wild p. 3 |
| 1997 | Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 15 |
| 1997 | Nothosauridae Rieppel and Mazin |
| 1998 | Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 27 |
| 2000 | Nothosauridae Rieppel |
| 2001 | Nothosauridae Rieppel |
| 2003 | Nothosauridae Albers and Rieppel p. 738 |
| 2006 | Nothosauridae Jiang et al. |
| 2008 | Nothosauridae Chrzastek p. 232 |
| 2009 | Nothosauridae Klein and Albers |
| 2014 | Nothosauridae Liu et al. |
| 2019 | Nothosauridae Hinz et al. |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| O. Rieppel and R. Wild 1996 | Small to large eusauropterygians with a distinctly constricted snout, pineal foramen displaced posteriorly; jugal excluded from posterior margin of orbit; maxillary tooth row extending to level of anterior margin of upper temporal fenestra or beyond; reduced dorsal exposure of prefrontal. | |
| O. Rieppel 1997 | Small to large eosauropterygians with a strongly depressed skull; snout constricted; dorsal exposure of prefrontal reduced; jugal (usually) excluded from posterior margin of orbit; premaxillary and anterior dentary fangs present. |