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Nothosauridae ✝

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Nothosaurus sp.

Gmina Tarnów Opolski, Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Nothosaurus sp.

Limestone quarries, Żyglin-Żyglinek, Miasteczko Śląskie, Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Nothosaurus sp.

Steinbruch Firma Klopfer, Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Nothosaurus sp.

Gmina Tarnów Opolski, Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Nothosaurus sp.

Limestone quarries, Żyglin-Żyglinek, Miasteczko Śląskie, Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Nothosaurus sp.

Steinbruch Firma Klopfer, Ludwigsburg, Stuttgart Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Nothosaurus sp.

Gmina Tarnów Opolski, Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland

Nothosaurus sp.

Limestone quarries, Żyglin-Żyglinek, Miasteczko Śląskie, Tarnowskie Góry County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Description

Nothosauridae are an extinct family of carnivorous aquatic sauropterygian reptiles from the Triassic time period of China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, and northern Africa.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothosauridae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3238933	https://www.gbif.org/species/3238933
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38170	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38170

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauridae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosauropterygia : Nothosauridae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
order	Sauropterygia	Owen 1861
order	Eosauropterygia	Rieppel 1994
family	Nothosauridae	Baur 1889

Scientific Name

Nothosauridae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated with evidence	Lydekker, 1889
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauri	stated with evidence	Jaekel, 1910
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauroidea	stated without evidence	Young, 1965
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1966
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	implied	Carroll, 1988
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated with evidence	Rieppel, 1994
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eusauropterygia	stated with evidence	Rieppel and Wild, 1996
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated with evidence	Rieppel, 1997
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated without evidence	Rieppel and Mazin, 1997
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated with evidence	Rieppel, 1998
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated without evidence	Rieppel, 2000
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated without evidence	Rieppel, 2001
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated with evidence	Albers and Rieppel, 2003
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated without evidence	Jiang et al., 2006
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated without evidence	Chrzastek, 2008
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated without evidence	Klein and Albers, 2009
Nothosauridae	family	belongs to Nothosauria	stated without evidence	Liu et al., 2014

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

247 - 242 Ma
Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

209 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic

Environment

marine (based on Sauropterygia)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothosauridae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Nothosaurinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		20	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Anomosaurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ceresiosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	242 Ma Middle Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Chinchenia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Conchiosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Germanosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Kwangsisaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Lamprosauroides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Lariosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		20	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Metanothosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Micronothosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Nothosaurus genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Nothosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		104	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Sanchiaosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Nothosaurus cuvieri Quenstedt, 1885	GBIF	species	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : *Nothosaurus cuvieri*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1885	Nothosaurus cuvieri Quenstedt p. 215 figs. Plate 16, figs 2-6, 12-15
1889	Nothosauridae Baur
1889	Nothosauridae Lydekker p. 287
1890	Nothosauridae Zittel p. 478
1898	Nothosaurus cuvieri Spangenberg p. 407
1910	Nothosauridae Jaekel p. 335
1946	Nothosauridae Kuhn p. 59
1965	Nothosauridae Young p. 344
1966	Nothosauridae Kuhn p. 112
1971	Nothosauridae Kuhn p. 18
1971	Nothosaurus cuvieri Kuhn p. 18
1988	Nothosauridae Carroll
1994	Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 10 fig. 1

Year	Name and Author
1996	Nothosauridae Rieppel and Wild p. 3
1997	Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 15
1997	Nothosauridae Rieppel and Mazin
1998	Nothosauridae Rieppel p. 27
2000	Nothosauridae Rieppel
2001	Nothosauridae Rieppel
2003	Nothosauridae Albers and Rieppel p. 738
2006	Nothosauridae Jiang et al.
2008	Nothosauridae Chrzastek p. 232
2009	Nothosauridae Klein and Albers
2014	Nothosauridae Liu et al.
2019	Nothosauridae Hinz et al.

References

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Lydekker R. , Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia, Part II. Containing the orders Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia

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

Jaekel O. (1910) Über das System der Reptilien [On the system of reptiles], Zoologische Anzeiger 35, 324-341

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

Young C.-C. (1965) On the new nothosaurs from Hupeh and Kweichou, China, Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9 4, 337-356

Kuhn O. W. M. (1966) , Die Reptilien. System und Stammesgeschichte [The Reptiles. Systematics and Phylogeny.], 1-154

Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105

Rieppel O. (1994) The braincases of Simosaurus and Nothosaurus: monophyly of the Nothosauridae (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 1, 9-23

Rieppel O., Wild R. (1996) A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus, Fieldiana: Geology, new series 34, 1-82

Rieppel O. (1997) Revision of the sauropterygian reptile genus Cymatosaurus v. Fritsch, 1894, and the relationships of Germanosaurus Nopcsa, 1928, from the Middle Triassic of Europe, Fieldiana: Geology, new series 36, 1-36

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. (2000) Handbuch der PaHioherpetologie Teil 12A Sauropterygia I: Placodontia, Pachypleurosauria, Nothosauroidea, Pistosauroidea, 1-134

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

Albers P. C. H., Rieppel O. (2003) A new species of the sauropterygian genus Nothosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of Winterswijk, The Netherlands, Journal of Paleontology 77 4, 738-744

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

Chrzastek A. (2008) Vertebrate remains from the Lower Muschelkalk of Raciborowice Górne (North-Sudetic Basin, SW Poland), Geological Quarterly 52, 225-238

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

Liu J., Hu S.-X., et al (2014) A gigantic nothosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of SW China and its implication for the Triassic biotic recovery, Scientific Reports 4, 7142 doi:10.1038/srep07142

Hinz J. K., Matzke A. T., et al (2019) A new nothosaur (Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian of Vellberg-Eschenau, southern Germany, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1585364

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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