A new species of Lariosaurus Sauropterygia Nothosauridae from Triassic of Guizhou, southwest China

作者：J. Liang. Li, J. . Liu, Olivier Rieppel · 发表于：Europe PMC (PubMed Central) · 年份：2002 · 被引用次数：24 · 研究领域：Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology、Evolution and Paleontology Studies、Ichthyology and Marine Biology

The first Triassic sauropterygian to be described from China was Keichousaurus hui (Young, 1958) found in Xingyi, Guizhou. Shingyisaurus unexpectus, another sauropterygian found in Xingyi, Was referred to the Simosauridae by Young (1965). It was identified as Nothosaurus or a closely related gnus, and the name Shingyisaurus unexpectus was considered a nomen dubium (Rieppel, 1998). Here we report a well-preserved specimen from Xingyi, Guizhou Province. It represents the first undoubted specimen and a new species of Lariosaurus ever found outside western Tethyan faunal province.