ITALY
VARESE PROVINCE
LOMBARDY
BESANO
PIODELLE-SELVA BELLA MINE SITE
BESANO FORMATION
NEVADITES SECEDENSIS ZONE
UPPERMOST ANISIAN STAGE
LATE EARLY MID TRIASSIC EPOCH
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
ORDER: HELVETICOSAURIA PEYER, 1955
Family: HELVETICOSAURIDAE Peyer, 1955
Helveticosaurus zolligeri
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VARESE PROVINCE
LOMBARDY
BESANO
SASSO CALDO SITE
MIDDLE BESANO FORMATION
NEVADITES SECEDENSIS ZONE
UPPERMOST ANISIAN STAGE
LATE EARLY MID TRIASSIC EPOCH
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS
OR AMNIOTA: INCERTAE SEDIS
MAGANORDER: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA BAUR, 1887 emend nova
SUPERORDER: EOICHTHYOSAURIA MOTANI, 1999
GRANDORDER: ICHTHYOSAURIA EMEND BLAINVILLE, 1835
MICRORDER: HUENEOSAURIA MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
ORDER: MIXOSAUROIDEA (BAUR, 1887)
Family: MIXOSAURIDAE Baur, 1887
Subfamily: MIXOSAURINAE Baur, 1887 nom. Transl. Ex MIXOSAURIDAE
Mixosaurus cornalianus
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VARESE PROVINCE
LOMBARDY
BESANO
LOMBARDIA
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS
OR AMNIOTA: INCERTAE SEDIS
MAGANORDER: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA BAUR, 1887 emend nova
SUPERORDER: EOICHTHYOSAURIA MOTANI, 1999
GRANDORDER: ICHTHYOSAURIA EMEND BLAINVILLE, 1835
MICRORDER: HUENEOSAURIA MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
ORDER: MIXOSAUROIDEA (BAUR, 1887)
Family: MIXOSAURIDAE Baur, 1887
Subfamily: MIXOSAURINAE Baur, 1887 nom. Transl. Ex MIXOSAURIDAE
Mixosaurus cornalianus
= Ichthyosaurus cornalianus
= Mixosaurus cornalianus cornalianusSubfamily: PHALARODONTINAE Maisch & Matzke, 2001
Phalarodon nordenskioldii
LEGION: ARCHOSAUROMORPHA HUENE, 1946
SUPERCOHORT: AVEMETATARSALIA BENTON, 1999
COHORT: PROLACERTIFORMES CAMP, 1945 NOVA
MAGNORDER: PROTOROSAURIA HUXLEY, 1871
SUPERORDER: TAPINOPLATIA PETERS EMEND NOVA
Family: MACROCNEMIDAE Kuhn, 1946
Macrocnemus bassanii
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ITALY
VARESE PROVINCE
LOMBARDY
BESANO
GRENZBITUMEN ZONE
ANISIAN /LADINIAN STAGE
MID TRIASSIC EPOCH
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
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
= Tribelesodon longobardicus
= Macroscelosaurus longobardicus
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ITALY
VARESE PROVINCE
“BASANO II”
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
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
Family: MACROCNEMIDAE Kuhn, 1946
Macrocnemus bassanii
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ITALY
VARESE PROVINCE
“BASANO III”
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
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
Family: MACROCNEMIDAE Kuhn, 1946
Macrocnemus bassanii
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ITALY
VARESSE PROVINCE
BESANO NEAR PORTO CEPESIO
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
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
Family: MACROCNEMIDAE Kuhn, 1946
*Macrocnemus bassanii
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NORTH ITALY
LOMBARDY
VARESE PROVINCE
BESANO
SASSO CALDO QUARRY
BESANO FORMATION
NEVADITES ZONE
UPPERMOST ANISIAN STAGE
LOWER MID TRIASSIC EPOCH
MIDDLE TRIASSIC
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903
INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
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
Incerte sedis
Family: BESANOSAURIDAE MCGOWAN & MONTANI, 2003
*Besanosaurus leptorhynchus
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