Species
Valid Extinct

Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis

(Chen 1985)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Grippiidae Family
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Chaohusaurus Genus
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Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
1
Geological formations
Nanlinghu
1
Temporal distribution
Olenekian (250.8–247 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
R. Motani, H. You, and C. McGowan. 1996. Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs. Nature 382:347-348 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
M. Zhou, D.-Y. Jiang, and R. Motani, A. Tintori, C. Ji, Z.-Y. Sun. 2017. The cranial osteology revealed by three-dimensionally preserved skulls of the Early Triassic ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) from Anhui, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI ↗