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| Rank | order (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Sauropterygia |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Enaliosauri | stated without evidence | Owen, 1861 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated with evidence | Cope, 1871 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Woodward, 1898 | | Sauropterygia | order | subjective synonym of Plesiosauria | stated without evidence | Hay, 1902 | | Sauropterygia | superorder | belongs to Synapsida | stated with evidence | Osborn, 1903 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Anomodontia | stated with evidence | Osborn, 1904 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Enaliosauri | stated with evidence | Jaekel, 1910 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Holosauria | stated without evidence | Jaekel, 1911 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Dranitesauria | stated without evidence | Nopcsa, 1928 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Swinton, 1934 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Synaptosauria | stated without evidence | Roxo, 1937 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1946 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Theromorphoidea | stated without evidence | Huene, 1954 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Diapsida | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1966 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Thurmond, 1968 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Synaptosauria | stated without evidence | Carroll, 1981 | | Sauropterygia | subclass | belongs to Reptilia | stated with evidence | Brown, 1981 | | Sauropterygia | superorder | belongs to Lepidosauromorpha | implied | Carroll, 1988 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Sander, 1989 | | Sauropterygia | unranked clade | belongs to Euryapsida | stated with evidence | Rieppel, 1989 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Lepidosauromorpha | stated without evidence | Storrs, 1991 | | Sauropterygia | unranked clade | belongs to Diapsida | stated without evidence | Jiang et al., 2006 | | Sauropterygia | order | belongs to Diapsida | stated with evidence | Druckenmiller and Russell, 2008 | | Sauropterygia | superorder | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Smith and Araújo, 2017 | | Sauropterygia | unranked clade | belongs to Diapsida | stated without evidence | Serratos et al., 2017 | | Sauropterygia | unranked clade | belongs to Reptilia | stated without evidence | Vincent and Storrs, 2019 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 559 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 70.6 - 61.6 Ma
Phanerozoic |
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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) | R. Owen. 1861. Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh |
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| Owen R. , Palaeontology, or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geological Relations. Second Edition. Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1-463 |
| Cope E. D. On the homologies of some of the cranial bones of the Reptilia, and on the systematic arrangement of the class, Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 19, 194-247 |
| Leidy J. Part I. Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories, Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories 1, 1-358 |
| Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109 |
| Zittel K. A. v. , Handbuch der Palaeontologie. I. Abteilung Paleozoologie. III. Band. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves) [Handbook of Paleontology. Division I. Paleozoology. Volume III. Vertebrata (Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves)], xii-900 |
| Osborn H. F. (1903) The reptilian subclasses Diapsida and Synapsida and the early history of the Diaptosauria, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1 8, 449-507 |
| Jaekel O. (1910) Über das System der Reptilien [On the system of reptiles], Zoologische Anzeiger 35, 324-341 |
| Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252 |
| Nopcsa B. F. (1928) Palaeontological notes on reptiles. V. On the skull of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaur Euoplocephalus, Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 1 1, 1-54 |
| Swinton W. E. (1934) , A Guide to the Fossil Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 7, xii-87 |
| Kuhn O. (1946) Das System der fossilen und rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien [The system of fossil and recent amphibians and reptiles], Bericht der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bamberg 29, 49-67 |
| Huene F. v. (1954) , Die Saurierwelt und ihre Geschichtlichen Zusammenhänge [The World of Reptiles and the History of Their Interrelationships]. 2nd, revised edition, 1-66 |
| Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154 |
| Thurmond J. T. (1968) A new polycotylid plesiosaur from the Lake Waco Formation (Cenomanian) of Texas, Journal of Paleontology 42 5, 1289-1296 |
| Brown D. S. (1981) The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 35 4, 253-347 |
| Carroll R. L. (1981) Plesiosaur Ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 293 1066, 315-383 |
| Thurmond J. T., Jones D. E. (1981) , Fossil Vertebrates of Alabama, 1-244 |
| Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698 |
| Rieppel O. (1989) A New Pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences 323 1212, 1-73 |
| Sander P. M. (1989) The pachypleurosaurids (Reptilia: Nothosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) with the description of a new species, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 325, 561-666 |
| Storrs G. W. (1991) Anatomy and relationships of Corosaurus alcovensis (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the Triassic Alcova Limestone of Wyoming, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 44, 1-151 |
| Jiang D.-Y., Maisch M. W., et al (2006) Nothosaurus yangyuanensis n. sp. (Reptlia, Sauropterygia, Nothosauridae) from the middle Anisian (Middle Triassic) of Guizhou, southwestern China, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte 2006 5, 257-276 |
| Druckenmiller P. S., Russell A. P. (2008) Skeletal anatomy of an exceptionally complete specimen of a new genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Early Albian) of northeastern Alberta, Canada, Palaeontographica. Abteilung A: Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie 283 1-3, 1-33 |
| Serratos D. J., Druckenmiller P., et al (2017) A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Bearpaw Shale (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of Montana demonstrates multiple evolutionary reductions of neck length within Elasmosauridae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 2, e1278608 |
| Smith A. S., Araújo R. (2017) Thaumatodracon wiedenrothi, a morphometrically and stratigraphically intermediate new rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurian from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Lyme Regis, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 308 4–6, 89-125 |
| Vincent P., Storrs G. W. (2019) Lindwurmia, a new genus of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the earliest Jurassic of Halberstadt, northwest Germany, The Science of Nature 106 5 doi:10.1007/s00114-018-1600-y |
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