The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe | Revision of Lariosaurus

1998

Rieppel, Olivier


书目信息
Fieldiana, Geology, new ser., no. 38
ISSN 0096-2651
Publication (Field Museum of Natural History), 1490
出版者
Field Museum of Natural History
其它主题
Lariosaurus; Ceresiosaurus; Silvestrosaurus; Sauropterygia
语言
德语, 英语
格式
print
注释
"Accepted January 7, 1997. Published February 27, 1998."
The geographic and stratigraphic occurrence of the Middle Triassic sauropterygian genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus is summarized, and their skeletal morphology is critically reviewed. A cladistic analysis using parsimony supports the synonymy of all three genera, among which Lariosaurus takes priority. The genus Lariosaurus includes five species, balsami, buzzii, calcanii, curionii n. sp., and valceresii, with only partially resolved interrelationships. The sister group of Lariosaurus is the genus Nothosaurus. Lariosaurs diversified during Ladinian times in the northwestern Tethyan coastal area, after the genus Nothosaurus had invaded the Alpine intraplatform basin facies.
Abstract also in German.
Fieldiana series has been published as Geological Series by Field Columbian Museum (1895-1909) and Field Museum of Natural History (1909-1943), and as Fieldiana: Geology by Chicago Natural History Museum (1945-1966) and Field Museum of Natural History (1966-).
类型
Book; Text

2023-09-25
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