First record of Placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Eastern Tethys

Jiang, Da-Yong; Motani, Ryosuke; Hao, Wenyan; Rieppel, Olivier; Sun, Yongqi; Schmitz, Lars; Sun, Zhipeng

doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[904:froprs]2.0.co;2

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“…Placodonts were already in decline during the Late Triassic, with only two species surviving into the Rhaetian, both cyamodontoids. This is in stark contrast to the diverse placodont fauna of the Middle Triassic, with three cyamodontoid and three placodontoid genera, found in the eastern and western provinces of the Tethys (Rieppel, 2000;Li and Rieppel, 2002;Jiang et al, 2008;Zhao et al, 2008). Particularly diverse is the fauna of the Middle Triassic Muschelkalk in Germany, with six placodont species described (Rieppel, 2000).…”

Section: The Last Placodontsmentioning

confidence: 78%

A marine vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic of Somerset, and a review of British placodonts

Nordén

Duffin

Benton

2015

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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Section: The Last Placodontsmentioning

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A marine vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic of Somerset, and a review of British placodonts

Nordén

Duffin

Benton

2015

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

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“…The latter three form the Eosauropterygia (Rieppel, 2000). However, recently several new taxa of Eosauropterygia exhibiting a mosaic of pachypleurosaurian and nothosaurian characters have been described from the Middle Triassic of China (e.g., Jiang et al, 2008;Shang et al, 2011;Wu et al, 2011) that contest the monophyly of Eosauropterygia.…”

Section: N Klein and E M Griebeler: Growth Modeling In Pachypleuromentioning

confidence: 99%

Growth patterns, sexual dimorphism, and maturation modeled in Pachypleurosauria from Middle Triassic of central Europe (Diapsida: Sauropterygia)

Klein

Griebeler

2018

Foss. Rec.

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“…Western and Eastern Tethys, being mainly known in Europe, but also in North Africa and the Middle East, as well as in China (Li and Rieppel, 2002;Jiang et al, 2008;Scheyer et al, 2012). The palaeobiogeography of placodonts shows they were mainly linked to coastal environments of the Tethys Ocean margins and, up to now, they have not been found outside from this Tethyan Realm.…”

Section: Sauropterygia (Fig 4 Table 3 In Appendix)mentioning

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Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates

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During the Mesozoic, various groups of reptiles underwent a spectacular return to an aquatic life, colonizing most marine environments. They were highly diversified both systematically and ecologically, and most were the largest top-predators of the marine ecosystems of their time. The main groups were Ichthyosauria, Sauropterygia, Thalattosauria, and several lineages of Testudinata, Crocodyliformes, Rhynchocephalia and Squamata. Here we show that the palaeobiogeographical distribution of these marine reptiles closely followed the break-up of the supercontinent Pangaea and that they globally used the main marine corridors However, if large faunal interchanges were possible at a global scale following a dispersal model, some provinces, such as the Mediterranean Tethys, were characterized by a peculiar faunal identity, illustrating an absence of migration with time despite the apparent lack of barriers. So, if Continental Drift enabled global circulations and faunal interchanges via dispersals among Mesozoic marine reptiles, others parameters, such as ecological and biological constraints, probably also played a role in the local endemic distribution of some of these marine groups, as they do today.

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First record of Placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Eastern Tethys

Cited by 51 publications

References 12 publications

A marine vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic of Somerset, and a review of British placodonts

A marine vertebrate fauna from the Late Triassic of Somerset, and a review of British placodonts

Growth patterns, sexual dimorphism, and maturation modeled in Pachypleurosauria from Middle Triassic of central Europe (Diapsida: Sauropterygia)

Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates

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