References / paperBobosaurus forojuliensis, a new sauropterygian (Reptilia) from the Upper Triassic (lower Carnian) of northeastern Italy
Dalla Vecchia, F.M.
Year2006
Source roleprimary-study
DOI / ID10.13130/2039-4942/6337
Fitness and scope
taxonomy · topology · range · morphology
Holotype MFSN 27285 from the Rio del Lago Formation combines nothosaurian and plesiosaurian features; affinity near Plesiosauria is explicitly uncertain.
Claim ledger
topology · contestedThe early Carnian Bobosaurus holotype combines nothosaurian and plesiosaurian features and was interpreted near the plesiosaur lineage, but it is an older uncertain candidate rather than diagnostic Plesiosauria; the articulated Rhaetian Rhaeticosaurus provides the older secure comparison used here.
claim:event:bobosaurus-plesiosaurian-affinity