Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Diagnosis from Rieppel 2000
Belongs to Nothosaurus according to Sanz 1983
See also Sanz et al. 1993
Sister taxa: Conchiosaurus clavatus, Elmosaurus lelmensis, Kolposaurus dichthadius, Metriorhynchus priscus, Nothosaurus cristatus, Nothosaurus edingerae, Nothosaurus giganteus, Nothosaurus haasi, Nothosaurus hecki, Nothosaurus jagisteus, Nothosaurus marchicus, Nothosaurus mirabilis, Nothosaurus occiduus, Nothosaurus rostellatus, Nothosaurus schimperi, Nothosaurus tchernowi, Nothosaurus unexpectus, Nothosaurus venustus, Nothosaurus yangjuanensis, Nothosaurus zhangi, Plesiosaurus speciosus, Simosaurus mougeoti
Type specimen: MGSB M-503 and M-504, a skull (part and counterpart of a horizontally split skull). Its type locality is Montral-Alcover quarries, which is in a Longobardian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Muschelkalk Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Montral-Alcover quarries
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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