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Nothosauria (nothosaur)

Reptilia - Nothosauria

Taxonomy
Nothosauria was named by Baur (1889). It is not extant.

It was corrected as Nothosauri by Gadow (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Simosauria by Osborn (1904); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910) and Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauria by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Sander (1989), Rieppel et al. (1997) and Liu et al. (2014); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosaurida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Nothosauria by Rieppel (2000) and Hinz et al. (2019).

It was assigned to Sauropterygii by Jaekel (1910) and Jaekel (1911); to Plesiosauria by Gadow (1898) and Perrier (1928); to Sauropterygia by Osborn (1903) and Carroll (1988); to Sauropterygia by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Kuhn (1971) and Sander (1989); to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel et al. (1997); to Reptilia by Sepkoski (2002); to Sauropterygia by Liu et al. (2014); and to Nothosauroidea by Rieppel (2000) and Hinz et al. (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1889Nothosauria Baur
1898Nothosauri Gadow p. 23
1903Nothosauria Osborn p. 456
1910Nothosauri Jaekel p. 335
1911Nothosauri Jaekel p. 147
1928Nothosauria Perrier p. 3118
1937Nothosauria Roxo p. 43
1946Nothosauria Kuhn p. 59
1966Nothosauria Kuhn p. 111
1971Nothosaurida Kuhn p. 17
1988Nothosauria Carroll
1989Nothosauria Sander
1997Nothosauria Rieppel et al.
2000Nothosauria Rieppel
2002Notosauria Sepkoski
2014Nothosauria Liu et al.
2019Nothosauria Hinz et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
RankNameAuthor
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
suborderSauropterygia
orderNothosauriaBaur 1889
orderNothosauriaBaur 1889

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.

Or. †Nothosauria Baur 1889 [nothosaur]
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Fm. †Lariosauridae Gervais 1859
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Invalid names: Macromirosauridae Baur 1886 [synonym]
G. †Partanosaurus Skuphos 1893
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Partanosaurus zitteli Skuphos 1893
G. †Phygosaurus Arthaber 1924
G. †Pontopus
Fm. †Simosauridae Nopcsa 1928
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G. †Conchiosaurus Meyer 1833
G. †Paludidraco de Miguel Chaves et al. 2018
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Paludidraco multidentatus de Miguel Chaves et al. 2018
G. †Simosaurus Meyer 1842
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Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger 1842
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Invalid names: Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis Alberti 1837 [synonym], Simosaurus guilielmi Meyer 1847 [objective synonym]
Invalid names: Anarosauridae Jaekel 1910 [empty], Corosauridae Kuhn 1961 [empty], Germanosauridae Rieppel 2000 [empty], Neusticosauridae [empty], Proneusticosauridae Huene 1952 [empty]
Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
E. Perrier 1928Membres du type terrestre; doigts n'ayant pas plus de 5 phalanges; humérus avec un tronc épicondylien. Os des membres grêles.
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, Bush and Bambach 2015, Carroll 1988

Age range: base of the Spathian to the top of the Rhaetian or 251.30000 to 201.30000 Ma

Collections (25 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Spathian251.3 - 247.2Poland (Upper Silesia) Nothosauria indet. (195612)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0United Kingdom (England) Nothosauria indet. (97695)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Israel Nothosauria sp. (63924)
Illyrian247.2 - 242.0Israel Simosaurus sp. (149344)
Middle Triassic247.2 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (39763)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Saudi Arabia Simosaurus sp. (149547 149549)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemburg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138083)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Hungary Nothosauria indet. (156151 156153)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Austria (Vorarlberg) Partanosaurus zitteli (199760)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Bayern) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138085)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus gaillardoti (138084 138086)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0Germany Simosaurus sp. (59927)
Ladinian242.0 - 237.0France (Grand Est) Simosaurus gaillardoti, Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis (137680)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0China (Yunnan) Nothosauria indet. (196166)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Simosaurus guilielmi (106357)
Longobardian242.0 - 235.0Germany (Thuringia) Nothosauria indet. (106360)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0Germany Simosaurus sp. (206036)
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5Spain (Guadalajara) Paludidraco multidentatus (196814)
Julian235.0 - 232.0Italy (Udine) Simosaurus gaillardoti (196812)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Luxembourg (Diekirch) Nothosauria indet. (56047)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) Simosaurus sp. (90876)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) Nothosauria indet. (139489)