Dactylosaurus, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 37 relations: Anarosaurus, Anatomical terms of location, Anisian, Bone, Europe, Family (biology), Finger, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Genus, Geology, Georg Gürich, Gogolin Formation, Greek language, Holotype, Keichousaurus, Kidney, Limb (anatomy), Limestone, Lizard, Maxilla, Muschelkalk, Neck, Neusticosaurus, Nothosaur, Olenekian, Pachypleurosauria, Radius (bone), Reptile, Rib, Skeleton, Stage (stratigraphy), Synonym (taxonomy), Temporal fenestra, Triassic, Ulna, University of Wrocław, Vertebra.

2. Early Triassic reptiles of Europe
3. Fossil taxa described in 1884
4. Triassic plesiosaurs

Anarosaurus

Anarosaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurs that lived in the Middle Triassic period (Anisian) and has been found in the Jena Formation and the Karlstadt Formation of Germany and the Winterswijk Quarry (Lower Muschelkalk) of The Netherlands. Dactylosaurus and Anarosaurus are Anisian life, sauropterygian genera and Triassic plesiosaurs.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Anisian

In the geologic timescale, the Anisian is the lower stage or earliest age of the Middle Triassic series or epoch and lasted from million years ago until million years ago.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Finger

A finger is a prominent digit on the forelimbs of most tetrapod vertebrate animals, especially those with prehensile extremities (i.e. hands) such as humans and other primates.

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Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás

Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (also Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Baron Nopcsa, Ferenc Nopcsa, báró felsőszilvási Nopcsa Ferenc, Baron Franz Nopcsa, and Franz Baron Nopcsa; May 3, 1877 – April 25, 1933) was a Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Georg Gürich

Georg Julius Ernst Gürich (25 September 1859, in Dobrodzień, Kingdom of Prussia – 16 August 1938 in Berlin) was a German geologist, paleontologist and university teacher, who wrote on Paleozoic geological formations in Poland and ranged through Guinea, Tanzania and Southern Africa (at the time German colonies), in search of unrecorded new species.

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Gogolin Formation

Gogolin Formation – Triassic geologic formation, hitherto named the Gogolin Beds,Assmann P., 1913 – Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Stratigraphie des oberschlesischen Muschelkalks.

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Greek language

Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Keichousaurus

Keichousaurus (meaning "Kweichow lizard") is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurian marine reptile from the Chialingchiang and Falang Formations of China with two known species attributed to the genus: K. hui and K. yuananensis. Dactylosaurus and Keichousaurus are sauropterygian genera.

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Kidney

In humans, the kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped blood-filtering organs that are a multilobar, multipapillary form of mammalian kidneys, usually without signs of external lobulation.

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Limb (anatomy)

A limb (from Old English lim, meaning "body part") is a jointed, muscled appendage of a tetrapod vertebrate animal used for weight-bearing, terrestrial locomotion and physical interaction with other objects.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Maxilla

In vertebrates, the maxilla (maxillae) is the upper fixed (not fixed in Neopterygii) bone of the jaw formed from the fusion of two maxillary bones.

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Muschelkalk

The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe.

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Neck

The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso.

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Neusticosaurus

Neusticosaurus (sometimes misspelled Neuticosaurus) ("swimming lizard"), is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the pachypleurosaurs, from Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Dactylosaurus and Neusticosaurus are Middle Triassic reptiles of Europe and sauropterygian genera.

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Nothosaur

Nothosaurs (superfamily Nothosauroidea) were Triassic marine sauropterygian reptiles.

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Olenekian

In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age in the Early Triassic epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage in the Lower Triassic series.

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Pachypleurosauria

Pachypleurosauria is an extinct clade of primitive sauropterygian reptiles from the Triassic period.

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Radius (bone)

The radius or radial bone (radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton.

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Skeleton

A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals.

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Stage (stratigraphy)

In chronostratigraphy, a stage is a succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale, which usually represents millions of years of deposition.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Temporal fenestra

Temporal fenestrae are openings in the temporal region of the skull of some amniotes, behind the orbit (eye socket).

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Ulna

The ulna or ulnar bone (ulnae or ulnas) is a long bone in the forearm stretching from the elbow to the wrist.

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University of Wrocław

The University of Wrocław (Uniwersytet Wrocławski, UWr; Universitas Wratislaviensis) is a public research university in Wrocław, Poland.

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Vertebra

Each vertebra (vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates.

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See also

Early Triassic reptiles of Europe

• Anomoiodon
• Augustaburiania
• Blomosuchus
• Boreopricea
• Bystrowisuchus
• Chasmatosuchus
• Coelodontognathus
• Collilongus
• Cymatosaurus
• Cymbospondylus
• Czatkowiella
• Dactylosaurus
• Doniceps
• Exilisuchus
• Gamosaurus
• Garjainia
• Isfjordosaurus
• Jaikosuchus
• Mesorhinosuchus
• Microcnemus
• Omphalosaurus
• Osmolskina
• Pamelina
• Pessopteryx
• Phantomosaurus
• Procolina
• Prorotodactylus
• Quasianosteosaurus
• Sclerosaurus
• Sophineta
• Trachelosaurus
• Tsylmosuchus
• Vitalia
• Vonhuenia
• Vritramimosaurus
• Vytshegdosuchus

Fossil taxa described in 1884

• Aipoceras
• Bambolinetta
• Ceratosaurus
• Cymatoceras
• Dactylosaurus
• Dinodocus
• Ectoconus
• Endoceratidae
• Eomys
• Europrotomus schroeckingeri
• Frodospira cochleata
• Gazella borbonica
• Hexameroceras
• Hylaeobatrachus
• Macelognathus
• Megalibgwilia
• Megalosaurus dunkeri
• Palaeophonus
• Plaxhaplous
• Plesiosuchus
• Rhytidosteus
• Tritylodon

Triassic plesiosaurs

• Alexeyisaurus
• Anarosaurus
• Atychodracon
• Dactylosaurus
• Odoiporosaurus
• Pistosaurus
• Rhaeticosaurus
• Thalassiodracon

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dactylosaurus

Also known as Dactylosaurus gracilis, Dactylosaurus schroederi.