Superfamily
Valid Extinct

Nothosauroidea

(Huene 1956)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Nothosauroidea
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Nothosaurus mirabilis, a Nothosaur from the Triassic of Europe, North Africa and Russia, pencil drawing © Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Eosauropterygia Order
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Nothosauroidea Superfamily
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
🇨🇳 China
1
Temporal distribution
Anisian (247–241.464 Ma)
2
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
F. v. Huene. 1956. Paläontologie und Phylogenie der Niederen Tetrapoden [Paleontology and Phylogeny of the Lower Tetrapods]. VEB Gustav Fischer Verlang, Jena DOI ↗
Bibliography (2)
O. Rieppel. 1999. The sauropterygian genera Chinchenia, Kwangsisaurus, and Sanchiaosaurus from the Lower and Middle Triassic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(2):321-337 DOI ↗
A. D. Walker. 1969. The reptile fauna of the 'Lower Keuper' Sandstone. Geological Magazine 106(5):470-476 DOI ↗