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Simosaurus gaillardoti

Reptilia - Nothosauria - Simosauridae

Taxonomy
Simosaurus gaillardoti was named by Meyer and Plieninger (1842). Its type specimen is LOST specimen, a skull, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blainville, Lunéville, which is in a Ladinian marine limestone in France.

Synonyms
  • Simosaurus guilielmi was named by Meyer (1847). Its type specimen is SMNS 16700 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Hoheneck, which is in a Longobardian estuary/bay limestone in the Erfurt Formation of Germany.

    It was synonymized objectively with Simosaurus gaillardoti by Rieppel (1994).
  • Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis was named by Alberti (1837). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Blainville, Lunéville, which is in a Ladinian marine limestone in France.

    It was synonymized subjectively with Simosaurus gaillardoti by Gervais (1852).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis Alberti
1842Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer
1842Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger pp. 45-47 figs. Plate 11, fig. 1
1847Simosaurus guilielmi Meyer p. 93 figs. Plate 20, fig. 1
1852Simosaurus gaillardoti Gervais p. 268
1855Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer p. 86
1855Simosaurus guilielmi Meyer p. 93
1859Simosaurus gaillardoti Owen p. 144
1860Simosaurus gaillardoti Owen p. 214
1861Simosaurus gaillardoti Owen p. 234
1898Simosaurus gaillardoti Spangenberg p. 407
1898Simosaurus guilelmi Spangenberg p. 407
1971Simosaurus gaillardoti Kuhn p. 19
1971Simosaurus guilielmi Kuhn p. 19
1994Simosaurus gaillardoti Rieppel pp. 4-5
2001Simosaurus gaillardoti O'Keefe p. 9
2013Simosaurus gaillardoti Pérez-García and Murelaga

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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
orderNothosauriaBaur 1889
familySimosauridae()
genusSimosaurusMeyer 1842
speciesgaillardotiMeyer and Plieninger 1842

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.

†Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger 1842
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Invalid names: Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis Alberti 1837 [synonym], Simosaurus guilielmi Meyer 1847 [objective synonym]
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, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Ladinian to the top of the Julian or 242.00000 to 232.00000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (39763)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138084 138086)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Bayern) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138085)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0France (Grand Est) Simosaurus gaillardoti, Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis (type locality: 137680)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemburg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138083)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus guilielmi (106357)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Italy (Udine) Simosaurus gaillardoti (196812)