ALPES-MARITIMES
NEAR THE CITY OF GRASSE
PIC DES COURMETTES
RHAETIAN STAGE
UPPERMOST LATE TRIASSIC EPOCH
LATE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
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
Incertae sedis
Gen. sp indet.
INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN 1860
OR NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS
ORDER: PLACODONTIA MEYER, 1863
SUBORDER: CYMODONTOIDEA NOPCSA, 1923
Superfamily: PLACOCHELYIDA Jaekel, 1907 (sensu Romer, 1956)
Family: PLACOCHELYIDAE Jaekel, 1907
Psephoderma alpinum
NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS
OR AMNIOTA: INCERTAE SEDIS
MAGANORDER: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA BAUR, 1887 emend nova
SUPERORDER: EOICHTHYOSAURIA MOTANI, 1999
GRANDORDER: ICHTHYOSAURIA EMEND BLAINVILLE, 1835
MICRORDER: LONGIPINNATI HUENE, 1948
ORDER: MERRIAMOSAURIA MONTANI, 1999
SUBORDER: SHASTASAURIA MONTANI, 1999
Family: SHASTASAURIDAE Merriam, 1895
Gen sp indet (large shastasaurid)
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT CHORISTODERA NOVA
ORDER: CHORISTODERA COPE, 1876
Family: PACHYSTROPHEIDAE Kuhn, 1961
Pachystropheus rhaeticus
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FRANCE
EASTERN PROVINCE
LA TURVIE (ALPES-MARITIMES)
OXFORDIAN STAGE
LOWER MALM EPOCH
LATE JURASSIC
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: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874
Family: PLIOSAURIDAE Seeley, 1874
Incertae sedis
non Megalosaurus, *M. nicaeenis
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