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Nothosauria (nothosaur)
Taxonomy
Nothosauria was named by Baur (1889). It is not extant.
It was corrected as Nothosauri by Gadow (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Simosauria by Osborn (1904); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910), Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauria by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Sander (1989), Rieppel et al. (1997), Liu et al. (2014); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosaurida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Nothosauria by Rieppel (2000), Hinz et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Sauropterygii by Jaekel (1910), Jaekel (1911); to Plesiosauria by Gadow (1898), Perrier (1928); to Sauropterygia by Osborn (1903), Carroll (1988); to Sauropterygia by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Kuhn (1971), Sander (1989); to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel et al. (1997); to Reptilia by Sepkoski (2002); to Sauropterygia by Liu et al. (2014); and to Nothosauroidea by Rieppel (2000), Hinz et al. (2019).
It was corrected as Nothosauri by Gadow (1898); it was synonymized subjectively with Simosauria by Osborn (1904); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauri by Jaekel (1910), Jaekel (1911); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosauria by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Sander (1989), Rieppel et al. (1997), Liu et al. (2014); it was reranked as the suborder Nothosaurida by Kuhn (1971); it was reranked as the superfamily Nothosauria by Rieppel (2000), Hinz et al. (2019).
It was assigned to Sauropterygii by Jaekel (1910), Jaekel (1911); to Plesiosauria by Gadow (1898), Perrier (1928); to Sauropterygia by Osborn (1903), Carroll (1988); to Sauropterygia by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Kuhn (1966), Kuhn (1971), Sander (1989); to Eosauropterygia by Rieppel et al. (1997); to Reptilia by Sepkoski (2002); to Sauropterygia by Liu et al. (2014); and to Nothosauroidea by Rieppel (2000), Hinz et al. (2019).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1889 | Nothosauria Baur |
| 1898 | Nothosauri Gadow p. 23 |
| 1903 | Nothosauria Osborn p. 456 |
| 1910 | Nothosauri Jaekel p. 335 |
| 1911 | Nothosauri Jaekel p. 147 |
| 1928 | Nothosauria Perrier p. 3118 |
| 1937 | Nothosauria Roxo p. 43 |
| 1946 | Nothosauria Kuhn p. 59 |
| 1966 | Nothosauria Kuhn p. 111 |
| 1971 | Nothosaurida Kuhn p. 17 |
| 1988 | Nothosauria Carroll |
| 1989 | Nothosauria Sander |
| 1997 | Nothosauria Rieppel et al. |
| 2000 | Nothosauria Rieppel |
| 2002 | Notosauria Sepkoski |
| 2014 | Nothosauria Liu et al. |
| 2019 | Nothosauria Hinz et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Or. †Nothosauria Baur 1889 [nothosaur]
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Fm. †Lariosauridae Gervais 1859
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G. †Phygosaurus Arthaber 1924
Invalid names: Macromirosauridae Baur 1886 [synonym]
G. †Pontopus
Fm. †Simosauridae Nopcsa 1928
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G. †Conchiosaurus Meyer 1833
G. †Paludidraco de Miguel Chaves et al. 2018
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†Paludidraco multidentatus de Miguel Chaves et al. 2018
G. †Simosaurus Meyer 1842
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†Simosaurus gaillardoti Meyer and Plieninger 1842
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Invalid names: Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis Alberti 1837 [synonym], Simosaurus guilielmi Meyer 1847 [objective synonym]
Invalid names: Anarosauridae Jaekel 1910 [empty], Corosauridae Kuhn 1961 [empty], Germanosauridae Rieppel 2000 [empty], Neusticosauridae [empty], Proneusticosauridae Huene 1952 [empty]
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| E. Perrier 1928 | Membres du type terrestre; doigts n'ayant pas plus de 5 phalanges; humérus avec un tronc épicondylien. Os des membres grêles. |
Measurements
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| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988, Bush and Bambach 2015 | |||||
Collections (25 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Spathian | Poland (Upper Silesia) | Nothosauria indet. (195612) | |
| Anisian | United Kingdom (England) | Nothosauria indet. (97695) | |
| Anisian | Israel | Nothosauria sp. (63924) | |
| Illyrian | Israel | Simosaurus sp. (149344) | |
| Middle Triassic | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Simosaurus gaillardoti (39763) | |
| Ladinian | Germany | Simosaurus sp. (59927) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Simosaurus gaillardoti (138084 138086) | |
| Ladinian | Hungary | Nothosauria indet. (156151 156153) | |
| Ladinian | Saudi Arabia | Simosaurus sp. (149547 149549) | |
| Ladinian | Austria (Vorarlberg) | Partanosaurus zitteli (199760) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Bayern) | Simosaurus gaillardoti (138085) | |
| Ladinian | Germany (Baden-Württemburg) | Simosaurus gaillardoti (138083) | |
| Ladinian | France (Grand Est) | Simosaurus gaillardoti, Ichthyosaurus lunevillensis (137680) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Baden-Württemberg) | Simosaurus guilielmi (106357) | |
| Longobardian | Germany (Thuringia) | Nothosauria indet. (106360) | |
| Longobardian | China (Yunnan) | Nothosauria indet. (196166) | |
| Carnian | Germany | Simosaurus sp. (206036) | |
| Carnian - Norian | Spain (Guadalajara) | Paludidraco multidentatus (196814) | |
| Julian | Italy (Udine) | Simosaurus gaillardoti (196812) | |
| Alaunian | Luxembourg (Diekirch) | Nothosauria indet. (56047) | |
| Rhaetian | France (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) | Simosaurus sp. (90876) | |
| Rhaetian | Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) | Nothosauria indet. (139489) |