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Nothosauria ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	38167	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=38167

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Nothosauria

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	Nothosauria	Baur 1889

Common Name

nothosaur

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Nothosauria	order	belongs to Plesiosauria	stated with evidence	Gadow, 1898
Nothosauria	order	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated with evidence	Osborn, 1903
Nothosauria	suborder	subjective synonym of Simosauria	stated with evidence	Osborn, 1904
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Sauropterygii	stated with evidence	Jaekel, 1910
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Sauropterygii	stated without evidence	Jaekel, 1911
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated with evidence	Kuhn, 1946
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated without evidence	Sander, 1989
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Eosauropterygia	stated without evidence	Rieppel and Mazin, 1997
Nothosauria	superfamily	belongs to Nothosauroidea	stated without evidence	Rieppel, 2000
Nothosauria	order	belongs to Reptilia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Nothosauria	order	misspelling of Nothosauria	stated without evidence	Alroy, 2007
Nothosauria	suborder	belongs to Sauropterygia	stated without evidence	Liu et al., 2014
Nothosauria	superfamily	belongs to Nothosauroidea	stated without evidence	Hinz et al., 2019

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower 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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Anarosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Corosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Germanosauridae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Lariosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	13	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	242 Ma Middle Triassic
Neusticosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Proneusticosauridae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)
Simosauridae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Parthanosaurus ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phygosaurus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Pontopus ✝ genus	doubtful (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Nothosauria Baur
1898	Nothosauri Gadow p. 23
1903	Nothosauria Osborn p. 456
1910	Nothosauri Jaekel p. 335
1911	Nothosauri Jaekel p. 147
1937	Nothosauria Roxo p. 43
1946	Nothosauria Kuhn p. 59
1966	Nothosauria Kuhn p. 111

Year	Name and Author
1971	Nothosaurida Kuhn p. 17
1988	Nothosauria Carroll
1989	Nothosauria Sander
1997	Nothosauria Rieppel and Mazin
2000	Nothosauria Rieppel
2002	Notosauria Sepkoski, Jr.
2014	Nothosauria Liu et al.
2019	Nothosauria Hinz et al.

References

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

Gadow H. , A Classification of Vertebrata Recent and Extinct, xvii-82

Osborn H. F. (1903) The reptilian subclasses Diapsida and Synapsida and the early history of the Diaptosauria, Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 1 8, 449-507

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

Jaekel O. (1911) , Die Wirbeltiere. Eine Übersicht über die Fossilen und Lebenden Formen [The Vertebrates. An Overview of the Fossil and Living Forms], viii-252

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

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

Sander P. M. (1989) The pachypleurosaurids (Reptilia: Nothosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) with the description of a new species, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 325, 561-666

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

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

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

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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