Dianmeisaurus Temporal range:
Middle Triassic,
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Holotype specimen of D. mutaensis, likely representing an immature individual | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | † Sauropterygia |
Suborder: | † Pachypleurosauria |
Genus: | †
Dianmeisaurus Shang & Li, 2015 |
Type species | |
†Dianmeisaurus gracilis Shang & Li, 2015
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Other species | |
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Dianmeisaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation in China. The type species is D. gracilis. [1] An additional species, D. mutaensis, was named in 2024 based on a small skeleton likely belonging to an immature individual. [2]
In their 2024 description of Dianmeisaurus mutaensis, Hu, Li & Liu recovered the two species of Dianmeisaurus as the sister taxon to Panzhousaurus in a clade of basally-branching pachypleurosaurs. In their analyses, they recovered the Pachypleurosauria as the sister taxon to the Nothosauroidea. The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below: [2]
Sauropterygia |
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Dianmeisaurus Temporal range:
Middle Triassic,
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Holotype specimen of D. mutaensis, likely representing an immature individual | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | † Sauropterygia |
Suborder: | † Pachypleurosauria |
Genus: | †
Dianmeisaurus Shang & Li, 2015 |
Type species | |
†Dianmeisaurus gracilis Shang & Li, 2015
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Other species | |
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Dianmeisaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic Guanling Formation in China. The type species is D. gracilis. [1] An additional species, D. mutaensis, was named in 2024 based on a small skeleton likely belonging to an immature individual. [2]
In their 2024 description of Dianmeisaurus mutaensis, Hu, Li & Liu recovered the two species of Dianmeisaurus as the sister taxon to Panzhousaurus in a clade of basally-branching pachypleurosaurs. In their analyses, they recovered the Pachypleurosauria as the sister taxon to the Nothosauroidea. The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below: [2]
Sauropterygia |
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