Genre

Valide Éteint

Chaohusaurus

Young and Dong 1972

Chaohusaurus geishanesis est une espèce éteinte d'ichthyosaures primitifs qui a vécu durant le Trias inférieur il y a environ entre 251,3 et 247,2 Ma.

Plage temporelle

Trias

Jurassique

Crétacé

Paléogène

Néogène

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Occurrences PBDB

Groupe

Ichtyosaures

Carnivore nektonic Marin

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Chaohusaurus specimen AGM CHS-5, a nearly complete skeleton that is almost as large as AGM I-1. Large scale bars are 10 cm, and short bars 2 cm. © Ryosuke Motani, Da-yong Jiang mail, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Guan-bao Chen · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Ichthyosauria Clade non classé

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Chaohusaurus Genre

Sites de découverte 9 sites géolocalisés

Répartition

Principaux pays

🇨🇳 Chine

Formations géologiques

Nanlinghu

Distribution temporelle

Anisien (246.7–241.464 Ma)

Olénékien (249.9–246.7 Ma)

Espèces (6)

Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis 250 Ma

Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis 250 Ma

Chaohusaurus geishanensis 248 Ma

Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis 247 Ma

Chensaurus chaoxianensis 248 Ma

Chensaurus faciles objective synonym of Chaohusaurus geishanensis 248 Ma

Synonymes (2)

Anhuisaurus subjective synonym of Chaohusaurus

Chensaurus subjective synonym of Chaohusaurus

Bibliographie

Description originale

J. J., Jr. Sepkoski. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Bibliographie (7)

J. Huang, R. Motani, and D. Jiang, A. Tintori, O. Rieppel, M. Zhou, X. Ren, R. Zhang. 2019. The new ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauromorpha) from Majiashan, Chaohu, Anhui Province, China. PeerJ 7(e7561) DOI ↗

M. Zhou, D.-Y. Jiang, and R. Motani, A. Tintori, C. Ji, Z.-Y. Sun. 2017. The cranial osteology revealed by three-dimensionally preserved skulls of the Early Triassic ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) from Anhui, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI ↗

R. Motani, D. Y. Jiang, and A. Tintori, O. Rieppel, G. B. Chen. 2014. Terrestrial origin of viviparity in Mesozoic marine reptiles indicated by Early Triassic embryonic fossils. PLoS One 9(2):e88640 DOI ↗

X. Chen, P. M. Sander, and L. Cheng, X. Wang. 2013. A new Triassic primitive ichthyosaur from Yuanan, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica 87(3):672-677

P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 DOI ↗

R. Motani and H. You. 1998. The forefin of Chensaurus chaoxianensis (Ichthyosauria) shows delayed mesopodial ossification. Journal of Paleontology 72(1):133-136 DOI ↗

R. Motani, H. You, and C. McGowan. 1996. Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs. Nature 382:347-348 DOI ↗