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Aristonectes parvidens âśť

Description

Aristonectes (meaning 'best swimmer') is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Paso del Sapo Formation of what is now Argentina, the Quiriquina Formation of Chile and the Lopez de Bertodano Formation of Antarctica. The type species is Aristonectes parvidens, first named by Cabrera in 1941.


From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristonectes_parvidens, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)8610430https://www.gbif.org/species/8610430
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)170704https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=170704
Rankspecies
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Cryptoclididae : Aristonectes : Aristonectes parvidens
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Sauropterygia : Elasmosauridae : Aristonectes : Aristonectes parvidens
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
-Pistosauria
-Plesiosauria
superfamilyPlesiosauroideaWelles 1943
-CryptoclidiaKetchum and Benson 2010
-XenopsariaBenson and Druckenmiller 2014
familyElasmosauridaeCope 1869
-AristonectinaeOtero et al. 2012
genusAristonectesCabrera 1941
speciesAristonectes parvidensCabrera 1941
Generic NameAristonectes
Scientific NameAristonectes parvidens Cabrera, 1941
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Aristonectes parvidensspeciesbelongs to Aristonectesstated with evidenceCabrera, 1941
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance83.5 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentmarine (based on Plesiosauria)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Plesiosauria)
Dietcarnivore (based on Plesiosauria)
Reproductionviviparous (based on Plesiosauria)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite (based on Plesiosauria)
Primary Reference (PBDB)A. Cabrera. 1941. Un plesiosaurio nuevo del Cretáceo del Chubut. Revista del Museo de La Plata 2(8):113-130
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristonectes_parvidens

Fossil Distribution

Obsolete Names

NameSourceTaxon RankTaxonomy
Turneria seymouriensis (Chatterjee & Creisler, 1994)GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Cryptoclididae : Aristonectes : Turneria seymouriensis
Turneria seymourensis Chatterjee & Small, 1989GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Cryptoclididae : Aristonectes : Turneria seymourensis
Morturneria seymourensis (Chatterjee & Creisler, 1994)GBIFspeciesAnimalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Cryptoclididae : Aristonectes : Morturneria seymourensis

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1941Aristonectes parvidens Cabrera pp. 114-129 figs. 1-6
1962Aristonectes parvidens Welles pp. 3 & 70
1963Aristonectes parvidens Persson p. 17 fig. 9
1989Turneria seymourensis Chatterjee and Small p. 199 figs. 2-10
1989Turneria seymouriensis Chatterjee and Small p. 199
1994Morturneria seymourensis Chatterjee and Creisler p. 142
1994Turneria seymouriensis Chatterjee and Creisler p. 142
2001Morturneria seymourensis O'Keefe p. 16
2003Aristonectes parvidens Gasparini et al. p. 105

References

Cabrera A. (1941) Un plesiosaurio nuevo del Cretáceo del Chubut, Revista del Museo de La Plata 2 8, 113-130
Welles S. P. (1962) A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 44 1, 1-96
Persson P. O. (1963) A revision of the classification of the Plesiosauria, with a synopsis of the stratigraphical and geographical distribution of the group, Lunds Universitets Arsskrift N. F. Serie 2 59 1, 1-57
Chatterjee S., Small B. J. (1989) New plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica, Origin and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota, Geological Society Special Publication 47, 197-215
Chatterjee S., Creisler B. (1994) Alwalkeria (Theropoda) and Morturneria (Plesiosauria), new names for preoccupied Walkeria Chatterjee, 1987 and Turneria Chatterjee and Small, 1989, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14 1, 142
O'Keefe F. R. (2001) A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), Acta Zoologica Fennica 213, 1-63
Gasparini Z., Bardet N., et al (2003) The elasmosaurid plesiosaur Aristonectes Cabrera from the latest Cretaceous of South America and Antarctica, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23 1, 104-115
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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