Species
Valid Extinct

Ceresiosaurus calcagnii

(Peyer 1931)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
3
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
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PBDB ↗
Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Eosauropterygia Order
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Nothosauridae Family
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Ceresiosaurus Genus
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Ceresiosaurus calcagnii Species
Fossil sites 3 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇭 Switzerland
2
🇪🇸 Spain
1
Geological formations
Meride
1
Muschelkalk
1
Temporal distribution
Ladinian (241.464–237 Ma)
3
Bibliography
Original description
O. Rieppel. 1998. The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 38:1-46 DOI ↗
Bibliography (3)
O. Rieppel and H. Hagdorn. 1998. Fossil reptiles from the Spanish Muschelkalk (Mont‐Ral and Alcover, Province Tarragona). Historical Biology 13:77-97 DOI ↗
O. Rieppel. 1998. The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 38:1-46 DOI ↗
A. Toroni. 1979. Les reptiles du Trias moyen du Monte San Giorgio, Tessin [The reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Tessino]. Bulletin der Vereinigung Schweiz. Petroleum Geologen und Ingenieure 45(109):17-34