NORTH WEST GERMANY

LOWER SASCHEN (SAXONY) STATE

BISSENDORF

COMPRESSUS ZONE

OOLITH MEMBER (GRAUE ZWISCHENITTEL)

FASSANIAN SUBSTAGE

LADINIAN STAGE

UPPER MID TRIASSIC EPOCH

MIDDLE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: NOTHOSAURIFORMES STORRS, 1991

SUBORDER: EUSAUROPTERYGIA TSCHANZ, 1989

INFRAORDER: PISTOSAUROIDEA BAUR, 1887-90

Superfamily: PISTOSAUROIDEA Baur in Zittel, 1887-1890 (Edinger, 1935)

Family: PISTOSAURIDAE Baur in Zittel, 1887-1890

Pistosaurus longaevus

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LOWER SASCHEN (SAXONY) STATE

OSNABRUCKER BERGLAND

MEIßNER FORMATION

UPPER MUSCHELKALK

ANISIAN/LANDINAN BOUNDARY

MID TRIASIC EPOCH

MIDDLE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: PACHYPLEUROSAURIA SANZ, 1980

Family: PACHYPLEUROSAURIDAE Nopcsa, 1928

Anarosaurus sp

Neusticosaurus sp

ORDER: NOTHOSAURIFORMES STORRS, 1991

INFRAORDER: NOTHOSAUROIDEA BAUR, 1889

Superfamily: NOTHOSAURIA Baur, 1889

Family: NOTHOSAURIDAE Baur, 1889

Nothosaurus sp

ORDER: PLACODONTIA MEYER, 1863

SUBORDER: PLACODONTOIDEA COPE, 1871

Family: PLACODONTIDAE Meyer, 1863

Placodus gigas

SUBORDER: CYMODONTOIDEA NOPCSA, 1923

Superfamily: CYAMODONTIDA Nopcsa, 1923

Family: CYAMODONTIDAE Nopcsa, 1923

Cyamodus sp

SUPERLEGION: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

SUPERCOHORT: AVEMETATARSALIA BENTON, 1999

COHORT: PROLACERTIFORMES CAMP, 1945 NOVA

MAGNORDER: PROTOROSAURIA HUXLEY, 1871

SUPERORDER: TAPINOPLATIA PETERS EMEND NOVA

GRANDORDER: CHARACIOPODA PETERS EMEND NOVA

Family: TANYSTROPHEIDAE Geravis, 1858

Tanystropheus longobardicus

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SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: AMPHIBIA LINNAEUS, 1758

SUBCLASS: LABYRINTHODONTIA OWEN, 1860

SUPERORDER: TEMNOSPONDYLIA ZITTEL, 1887

MICROORDER: LIMNARCHIA YATES & WARREN, 2000

ORDER: TREMATOSAURIA PIVETEAU, 1955

Superfamily: TREMATOSAUROIDEA Save-Soderbergh, 1935

Family: TREMATOSAURIDAE Watson, 1919

Morphotype 1

Gen. sp indet

Family: ALMASAURIDAE Dutuit, 1972

Morphotype 2

Gen. sp indet.

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904 OSBORN, 1903

Incertae sedis

Morphotype 9, 10

Gen. sp indet.

LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946

Incertae sedis

Morphotype 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13

Gen. sp indet.

SUBCLASS: SYNAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

Incertae sedis

Morphotype 14

Gen. sp indet.

SUPERORDER: THERASPIDA BROOM, 1905

GRANDORDER: EUTHERAPSIDA

MICRORDER: NEOTHERAPSIDA

ORDER: THERIODONTIA OWEN, 1881

EUTHERIODONTIA

SUBORDER: CYNODONTIA OWEN, 1860

Incertae sedis

Morphotype 15

Gen. sp indet.

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GERMANY

LOWER SASCHEN (SAXONY) STATE

SACHSEN

GOTTINGEN

UPPER MUSCHALKALK

LADINIAN STAGE

UPPER MID TRIASSIC EPOCH

MIDDLE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

OR NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS

ORDER: PLACODONTIA MEYER, 1863

SUBORDER: CYMODONTOIDEA NOPCSA, 1923

Superfamily: CYAMODONTIDA Nopcsa, 1923

Family: CYAMODONTIDAE Nopcsa, 1923

Cyamodus rostratus

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GERMANY

LOWER SAXONY STATE

NEAR BRAUNSCHWEIG (BRUNSWICK)

ELM

LELM

UPPER MUSCHELKALK

UPPER CERATITES-LAYERS

LADINIAN STAGE

UPPER MID TRIASSIC EPOCH

LATE MIDDLE TRIASSIC

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904

INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945

SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860

GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994

ORDER: NOTHOSAURIFORMES STORRS, 1991

SUBORDER: EUSAUROPTERYGIA TSCHANZ, 1989

INFRAORDER: NOTHOSAUROIDEA BAUR, 1889

Superfamily: NOTHOSAURIA Baur, 1889

Family: NOTHOSAURIDAE Baur, 1889

Nothosaurus lelmensis
= *Elmosaurus lelmensis

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