Fossil reptiles from the Spanish Muschelkalk (mont-ral and alcover, province Tarragona)
Titel:
Fossil reptiles from the Spanish Muschelkalk (mont-ral and alcover, province Tarragona)
Auteur:
Rieppel, Olivier Hagdorn, Hans
Verschenen in:
Historical biology
Paginering:
Jaargang 13 (1998) nr. 1 pagina's 77-97
Jaar:
1998
Inhoud:
The marine tetrapods from the late Ladinian Spanish Muschelkalk deposits located between the towns of Mont-ral and Alcover (province Tarragona) are reviewed. The fauna comprises an undetermined thalattosaur, a small cyamodontoid placodont probably referrable to Psephoderma, a possible pachypleurosaur with (if any) affinities to the Serpianosaurus-Neusticosaurus clade, lariosaur specimens currently referred to Lariosaurus balsami, an incomplete specimen of Lariosaurus calcagnii, an endemic nothosaur (Nothosaurus cymatosauroides), and a possible pistosaur. Collectively, the faunal mix comprises endemic taxa as well as elements with affinities to the fauna of the Alpine and/or Germanic Triassic. The fauna suggests faunal interchange through the Burgundy Gate linking the southern branch of the developing Neotethys to the Germanic Basin.
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