Nothosaurus winkelhorsti KLEIN & ALBERS, 2009

Systematik:

  • Klasse Reptilia LINNÉ, 1758
  • Unterklasse Diapsida OSBORN, 1903
  • Überordnung  Sauropterygia OWEN, 1860
  • Ordnung Eosauropterygia RIEPPEL, 1994
  • Unterordnung Eusauropterygia TSCHANZ, 1989
  • Infraordnung Nothosauroidea BAUR, 1889
  • Überfamilie Nothosauria BAUR, 1889
  • Familie Nothosauridae BAUR, 1889
  • Gattung Nothosaurus MÜNSTER, 1834
  • Art Nothosaurus winkelhorsti KLEIN & ALBERS, 2009

 

Nothosaurus MÜNSTER, 1834

  •   *1834 – Nothosaurus – MÜNSTER, S. 525
  •   1996 – Nothosaurus – RIEPPEL, O & WILD, R., 1996, S.3

 

Nothosaurus winkelhorsti KLEIN & ALBERS, 2009

  • Holotypus: NMNHL RGM 443825 almost complete skull
  • Stratum typicum: Layer 9 (see Oosterink 1986), Vossenveld Formation, Lower Muschelkalk (early Anisian, lower Middle Triassic)
  • Locus typicus: Winterswijk quarry, Winterswijk, The Netherlands

 

Synonomie:

*2009 – Nothosaurus winkelhorsti Klein and Albers sp. nov.– KLEIN & ALBERS, 2009, S. 590

 

Stratigraphisches Vorkommen:

  • Chronostratigraphisch: Mittlere Trias, Anisium
  • Lithostratigraphisch: Unterer Muschelkalk, Vossenveld Formation

 

Literatur:

  • ALBERS, P. C. H. (2011)New Nothosaurus skulls from the Lower Muschelkalk of the western Lower Saxony Basin (Winterswijk, the Netherlands) shed new light on the status of Nothosaurus winterswijkensis. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw 90-1, 15 – 21
  • ALBERS, P. C. H. (2005)A new specimen of Nothosaurus marchicus with features that relate the taxon to Nothosaurus winterswijkensis. www.PalArch.nl, Vertebrate Palaeontology, 3, (1): 1-7.
  • ALBERS, P. C. H. (2005)A Placodontoid jaw fragment from the Lower Muschelkalk of Winterswijk (The Netherlands). www.PalArch.nl, vertebrate palaeontology, 3, 5.
  • EDINGER, T. (1921) – Über Nothosaurus [Ph.D. thesis]: Frankfurt a.M.
  • KLEIN, N. & ALBERS, P. C. H. (2009)A new species of the sauropsid reptile Nothosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of the western Germanic Basin, Winterswijk, The Netherlands. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (4): 589–598.
  • MÜNSTER, G. Graf von (1834)Vorläufige Nachricht über einige neue Reptilien im Muschelkalke von Baiern. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde, Seiten 521- 527, Stuttgart
  •  RIEPPEL, O & WILD, R. (1996)A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus. Fieldiana 1 (34):1-82.