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Chinchenia

Description

Chinchenia is an extinct genus of a basal pistosauroid known from the Middle Triassic (possibly Ladinian age) of Guizhou Province, southwestern China. It contains a single species, Chinchenia sungi.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4822070https://www.gbif.org/species/4822070
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)100425https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=100425
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauridae : Chinchenia
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Eosauropterygia : Chinchenia
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
orderSauropterygiaOwen 1861
orderEosauropterygiaRieppel 1994
suborderPistosauroideaBaur 1887
genusChincheniaYoung 1965
Scientific NameChinchenia Young, 1965
Name Published InVertebr. palasiat. 9
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Chincheniagenusbelongs to Nothosauridaestated without evidenceYoung, 1965
Chincheniagenusbelongs to Nothosauridaestated with evidenceKuhn, 1966
Chincheniagenusbelongs to Nothosauriformesstated without evidenceStorrs, 1991
Chincheniagenusbelongs to Pistosauroideastated with evidenceRieppel, 1999
Chincheniagenusbelongs to Pistosauroideastated without evidenceRieppel, 2000
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance247 - 237 Ma
Triassic
Last Recorded Appearance247 - 237 Ma
Triassic
Environmentmarine (based on Sauropterygia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)C.-C. Young. 1965. On the new nothosaurs from Hupeh and Kweichou, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 9(4):337-356
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchenia

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Chinchenia sungi
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic
247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1965Chinchenia Young p. 321
1966Chinchenia Kuhn p. 112
1991Chinchenia Storrs p. 134
1999Chinchenia Rieppel p. 321
2000Chinchenia Rieppel

References

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
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
Rieppel O. (1999) The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 2, 321-337
Rieppel O. (2000) Handbuch der PaHioherpetologie Teil 12A Sauropterygia I: Placodontia, Pachypleurosauria, Nothosauroidea, Pistosauroidea, 1-134
GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Vertebr. palasiat. 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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