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| Rank | order (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosauropterygia |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated with evidence | Rieppel, 1994 | | Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated without evidence | Rieppel and Mazin, 1997 | | Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated with evidence | Rieppel, 1998 | | Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated without evidence | Rieppel, 2000 | | Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated with evidence | O'Keefe, 2001 | | Eosauropterygia | order | belongs to Sauropterygia | stated without evidence | Rieppel, 2001 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 111 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic |
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| Environment | marine (based on Sauropterygia) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | O. Rieppel. 1994. Osteology of Simosaurus gaillardoti and the relationships of stem-group Sauropterygia. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 28:1-85 |
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| Rieppel O. (1994) Osteology of Simosaurus gaillardoti and the relationships of stem-group Sauropterygia, Fieldiana: Geology, new series 28, 1-85 |
| Rieppel O., Mazin J.-M. (1997) Speciation along rifting continental margins: a new nothosaur from the Negev (Israel), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences Série IIA, Sciences de la Terre et des planètes 326, 991-997 |
| Rieppel O. (1998) The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe, Fieldiana: Geology, new series 38, 1-46 |
| Rieppel O. (1999) The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 2, 321-337 |
| Rieppel O. (2000) Handbuch der PaHioherpetologie Teil 12A Sauropterygia I: Placodontia, Pachypleurosauria, Nothosauroidea, Pistosauroidea, 1-134 |
| O'Keefe F. R. (2001) A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), Acta Zoologica Fennica 213, 1-63 |
| Rieppel O. (2001) A new species of Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Upper Muschelkalk (Lower Ladinian) of southwestern Germany, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 263, 137-161 |
| Klein N., Albers P. C. H. (2009) A new species of the sauropsid reptile Nothosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of the western Germanic Basin, Winterswijk, The Netherlands, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 4, 589-598 doi:10.4202/ app.2008.0083 |
| Jiang D.-Y., Motani R., et al (2014) The Early Triassic eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 5, 1044-1052 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.846264 |
| Renesto S., Binelli G., et al (2014) A new pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Northern Italy, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 271 2, 151-168 doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0382 |
| Cheng Y.-N., Wu X.-C., et al (2016) Dawazisaurus brevis, a new eosauropterygian from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, China, Acta Geologica Sinica 90 2, 401-424 |
| Jiang D.-Y., Lin W.-B., et al (2018) A new Anisian (Middle Triassic) eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Panzhou, Guizhou Province, China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 38 4, 1-9 doi:10.1080/02724634.2018.1480113 |
Eosauropterygia ✝
Guizhou, China