Subfamily
Valid Extinct

Nothosaurinae

Nopcsa 1923

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
27
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Nothosaurinae
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Ceresiosaurus calcagnii © Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia
PBDB
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
Eosauropterygia Order
Nothosauridae Family
Nothosaurinae Subfamily
Fossil sites 27 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇮🇹 Italy
8
🇨🇳 China
7
🇩🇪 Germany
4
🇳🇱 Netherlands
2
🇨🇭 Switzerland
2
🇪🇸 Spain
2
🇫🇷 France
1
🇦🇹 Austria
1
Geological formations
Falang
4
Meride
3
Perledo-Varenna
3
Vossenveld
2
Besano
2
Trochitenkalk
2
Muschelkalk
2
Perledo-Vaenna
2
Jialingjiang
1
Guanling
1
Temporal distribution
Ladinian (241.464–237 Ma)
19
Anisian (246.7–241.464 Ma)
7
Olenekian (249.9–246.7 Ma)
1
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
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