Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Pachypleurosauridae
Full reference: O. Rieppel. 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
Parent taxon: Pachypleurosauridae according to O. Rieppel 2000
See also Carroll 1988, Rieppel 1989, Rieppel and Lin 1995 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anarosaurus, Dactylosaurus, Doliovertebra, Hanosaurus, Honghesaurus, Luopingosaurus, Neusticosaurinae, Neusticosaurus, Pachypleurosaurinae, Pachypleurosaurus, Panzhousaurus, Psilotrachelosaurus
Subtaxa: Serpianosaurus germanicus Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis
Type: Serpianosaurus mirigiolensis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection), Switzerland (13)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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