Pomolispondylus
| Pomolispondylus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Saurosphargiformes |
| Genus: | †PomolispondylusCheng et al., 2022 |
| Type species | |
| †Pomolispondylus biani Cheng et al., 2022 | |
Pomolispondylus (meaning "knobbly vertebra" in Greek) is an extinctgenus of reptile known from the Early TriassicJialingjiang Formation of China. It contains a single species, Pomolispondylus biani.[1]
Phylogenetic analysis found it to be most closely related to Saurosphargidae, a Middle Triassicfamily of marine reptiles. The describing authors erected a new group, Saurosphargiformes, including both Pomolispondylus and Saurosphargidae.
References
- ^Cheng, Long; C. Moon, Benjamin; Yan, Chunbo; Motani, Ryosuke; Jiang, Dayong; An, Zhihui; Fang, Zichen (2022-07-14). "The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery". PeerJ. 10 e13569. doi:10.7717/peerj.13569. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 9288826. PMID 35855428.
