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- Sauropterygians are united by a radical adaptation of their pectoral girdle, adapted to support powerful flipper strokes. Some later sauropterygians,...
- Nothosaurs (superfamily Nothosauroidea) were Tri****ic marine sauropterygian reptiles. They averaged about 3 metres (10 ft) in length, with a long body...
- near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Early Jur****ic. It is known by nearly...
- squamosal bones. It is now commonly believed that euryapsids (particularly sauropterygians) are in fact diapsids (which have two fenestrae behind the orbit) that...
- This catalog of fossil reptile research published in 2025 includes a list of new taxa that were described during the year 2025, as well as other significant...
- Placodontiformes is an extinct clade of sauropterygian marine reptiles that includes placodonts and the non-placodont Palatodonta. It was erected in 2013...
- Anisian Balmacaan Formation (New Zealand), representing the oldest sauropterygian record from the Southern Hemisphere reported to date. The first simosaurid...
- arise from bipedal archosaurs. Ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs (a group of sauropterygians) dominate large marine fauna. Cynodonts become smaller and nocturnal...
- 'illegitimate' and σαῦρος, sauros, 'lizard') is an extinct genus of sauropterygian reptile from the Tri****ic period, approximately 240–210 million years...
- Nothosauridae are an extinct family of carnivorous aquatic sauropterygian reptiles from the Tri****ic time period of China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy...