Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Eusauropterygia

(Tschanz 1989)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Eusauropterygia
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Diversity of Sauropterygia. Above: Ceresiosaurus calcagnii (Nothosauroidea), Henodus chelyops (Placodontia); Below: Aristonectes parvidens, Brachauchenius lucasi (Plesiosauria). © Дмитрий Богданов (dmitrchel@mail.ru) Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.ca/) Дмитрий Богданов (dmitrchel@mail.ru) Дмитрий Богданов (dmitrchel@mail.ru) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Eusauropterygia Unranked clade
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇹 Italy
1
🇦🇹 Austria
1
Geological formations
Chiampees
1
Raibl
1
Temporal distribution
Carnian (237–227.3 Ma)
2
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
O. Rieppel. 1996. The status of the sauropterygian reptile Partanosaurus zitteli Skuphos from the Middle Triassic of the Austrian Alps, with comments on Microleptosaurus schlosseri Skuphos. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 70(3/4):567-577 DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
K. Krainer, S. G. Lucas, and M. Strasser. 2011. Vertebrate fossils from the Northalpine Raibl Beds, western Northern Calcareous Alps, Tyrol. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 104:97-106
M. Dalla Vecchia and M. Avanzini. 2002. New findings of isolated remains of Triassic reptiles from Northeastern Italy. Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 42(2-3):215-235