Species
Valid Extinct

Lariosaurus youngi

(Li and Rieppel 2004)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
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PBDB ↗
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Eosauropterygia Order
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Nothosauridae Family
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Nothosaurinae Subfamily
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Lariosaurus Genus
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Lariosaurus youngi Species
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
2
Geological formations
Falang
2
Temporal distribution
Ladinian (241.464–237 Ma)
2
Bibliography
Original description
W. B. Lin, D. Y. Jiang, and O. Rieppel, R. Motani, C. Ji, A. Tintori, Z. Y. Sun, M. Zhou. 2017. A new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1278703 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
H. Lu, D.-Y. Jiang, and R. Motani, P.-G. Ni, Z.-Y. Sun, A. Tintori, S.-Z. Xiao, M. Zhou, C. Ji, W.-F. Fu. 2018. Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Showing turnover of marine reptiles from coastal to oceanic environments. Palaeoworld 27(1):107-116 DOI ↗