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Placodontia
Senin, 2025-10-06 13:06:20

Placodonts ("tablet teeth") are an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. They...

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Henodus
Rabu, 2025-10-01 05:16:41

Greek: ἑνός henós, 'one' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús, 'tooth') is an extinct placodont of the Late Triassic period during the early Carnian age. Fossils of Henodus...

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Cyamodus
Selasa, 2026-05-05 12:08:02

Cyamodus (pron.: SIE-ah-MO-dus) is a genus of placodonts known from several species described from Middle-Late Triassic of Europe and China. The genus...

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Sauropterygia
Senin, 2026-06-01 23:24:09

sauropterygians are less specialised. Non-placodont sauropterygians generally have streamlined bodies. Many placodonts are covered in a layer of dermal armour...

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Geologic time scale
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 20:38:48

ray-finned fish). Ichthyosaurs, and sauropterygians plesiosaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts) appear. First scleractinian (hard coral) reefs. First wasps and stick...

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Mesozoic marine revolution
Rabu, 2026-04-01 03:05:01

reptiles such as ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians (plesiosaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts), thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians, proliferation of shell-destroying...

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Pararcus
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:36

Pararcus is an extinct genus of placodont marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of the Netherlands. The genus is monotypic and the type species is Pararcus...

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Placochelys
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 08:07:29

plakos, "plate" and Greek: chelys, "tortoise") is an extinct genus of placodont reptiles erected by Otto Jaekel in 1902. Fossils of Placochelys dates...

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Henodontidae
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:24

Henodontidae is an extinct family of superficially turtle-like placodonts belonging to the superfamily Cyamodontoidea. Fossils have been found in Germany...

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Paraplacodus
Senin, 2025-10-06 16:15:29

Paraplacodus broilii is an extinct placodont sauropterygian from the Middle Triassic epoch, from the Anisian until Ladinian stages. The fossils were uncovered...

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Palatal dentition
Senin, 2026-05-04 07:06:51

Underside of the skull of the aquatic placodont reptile Placodus, showing modification of palatal teeth into tooth plates used for crushing hard-shelled...

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Osteoderm
Senin, 2026-03-23 21:31:34

(most notably ankylosaurs and stegosaurians), phytosaurs, aetosaurs, placodonts, and hupehsuchians (marine reptiles with possible ichthyosaur affinities)...

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Placochelyidae
Selasa, 2025-04-08 05:51:40

Placochelyidae is an extinct family of placodonts belonging to the superfamily Cyamodontoidea. †Glyphoderma †Placochelys †Psephochelys †Psephoderma †Psephosauriscus...

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Marine reptile
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:47:38

a classification now cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most marine reptile...

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Psephoderma
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:50

Greek psepho (ψῆφος), "pebbly", and derma (δέρμα), "skin") is a genus of placodonts very similar to the related genera Placochelys and Cyamodus. Psephoderma...

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Marine life
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:29:37

the seas, including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Marine reptiles were...

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Jurassic
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:02:38

(Rhaetian). By the end of the Triassic, all other sauropterygians, including placodonts and nothosaurs, had become extinct. At least six lineages of plesiosaur...

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Palatodonta
Minggu, 2026-01-25 23:01:53

basal placodontiform closely related to a group of marine reptiles called placodonts, characterized by their crushing teeth and shell-like body armor. Under...

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Euryapsida
Minggu, 2025-09-28 22:30:07

Klein, Nicole; Scheyer, Torsten M. (2013-03-27). "European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia"...

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Zhuganpo Formation
Senin, 2025-10-06 19:11:24

PMID 33986981. Zhao, L.-J.; Li, C.; Liu, J.; He, T. (2008). "A new armored placodont from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, Southwestern China" (PDF)...

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Triassic
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:41:50

common during the Middle Triassic, especially in the Tethys region), placodonts, the earliest known herbivorous marine reptile Atopodentatus, and the...

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Sinocyamodus
Selasa, 2026-02-17 05:38:07

Sinocyamodus is an extinct genus of placodont reptile from the Late Triassic (Tuvalian) Xiaowa Formation of China. Only one species, Sinocyamodus xinpuensis...

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Filter feeder
Senin, 2026-05-25 00:14:16

have been suggested to have engaged in filter feeding. Henodus was a placodont with unique baleen-like denticles and features of the hyoid and jaw musculature...

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Triassic–Jurassic extinction
Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:29:45

Triassic–Jurassic boundary were the placochelyids (the last family of placodonts), making plesiosaurs the only surviving sauropterygians, and giant ichthyosaurs...

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Amniote
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:15:53

of reptiles, progenitors of birds) Subclass Euryapsida (plesiosaurs, placodonts, and ichthyosaurs) Subclass Synapsida (stem or proto-mammals, progenitors...

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Cyamodontoidea
Selasa, 2025-04-08 05:46:04

an extinct superfamily of placodont marine reptiles from the Triassic period. It is one of the two main groups of placodonts, the other being Placodontoidea...

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Xiaowa Formation
Kamis, 2026-05-07 03:19:23

Reptiles of the Guanling biota include ichthyosaurs, thalattosaurs, placodonts, and Odontochelys (an early relative of turtles). Sedimentary events within...

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Temporal fenestra
Selasa, 2025-07-01 16:02:10

fenestra. Examples of euryapsid reptiles include ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, placodonts, and Trilophosaurus. Diapsida – Two openings. A monophyletic group including...

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Archosauromorpha
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:27:01

Neenan, J. M.; Klein, N.; Scheyer, T. M. (2013). "European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia"...

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Ticinosuchus
Minggu, 2026-02-01 09:00:17

groups of fossil fishes, ichthyosaurs, tanystropheids, nothosaurs and placodonts, among others). The holotype specimen of Ticinosuchus is composed of a...

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Largest prehistoric animals
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:52:53

length and 200 kg (440 lb) in weight. Placodus was among the largest placodonts, with a length of up to 3 m (9.8 ft). The largest nothosaur as well as...

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Chelyoposuchus
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:14

Chelyoposuchus is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont found at the Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt, Germany. The type species, C. crassisquamatus...

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Atopodentatus
Kamis, 2026-01-01 00:05:26

describing the herbivorous habits of Atopodentatus also suggests that the placodont Henodus was a herbivore as well. Cheng, L.; Chen, X. H.; Shang, Q. H.;...

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Ichthyosauria
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:43:02

Neenan, J. M.; Klein, N.; Scheyer, T. M. (2013). "European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia"...

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Psephosauriscus
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:53

Psephosauriscus is an extinct genus of placodont reptile from the Middle Triassic of Israel and Egypt. It is known from bony armor plates that have been...

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Parahenodus
Selasa, 2025-04-08 05:47:50

with Henodus meaning "single tooth") is an extinct genus of henodontid placodont only known from a skull, discovered between 2008 and 2015 and described...

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Helveticosaurus
Selasa, 2026-06-02 08:24:26

superfamily. Despite the dorsal vertebrae, which are very similar to those of placodonts, the genus lacks many of the autapomorphies characteristic of sauropterygians...

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List of lagerstätten
Kamis, 2026-06-04 03:37:31

notable for its preservation of cnidarians. Nothosaurs, thalattosuchians, placodonts, and pistosaurs are also known from this Spanish exposure of Muschelkalk...

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Late Triassic
Minggu, 2026-03-08 12:52:07

to these species that became extinct, the straight-shelled nautiloids, placodonts, bivalves, and many types of reptile did not survive through this age...

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Cyamodontidae
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 05:39:48

Cyamodontidae is an extinct family of superficially turtle-like placodonts belonging to the superfamily Cyamodontoidea. Fossils have been found in Germany...

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Durophagy
Senin, 2026-03-30 14:53:32

but is also used when describing reptiles, including fossil turtles, placodonts, some mosasaurs and extinct crocodylians, invertebrates, as well as "bone-crushing"...

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Protenodontosaurus
Selasa, 2025-06-10 00:34:45

Protenodontosaurus is an extinct genus of placodont from Italy. Neenan, J. M.; Li, C.; Rieppel, O.; Bernardini, F.; Tuniz, C.; Muscio, G.; Scheyer, T...

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Saurosphargidae
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:45:42

and together with Helveticosaurus, they were originally thought to be placodonts, but later studies suggested relatedness to other sauropterygians and...

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Trilophosauridae
Minggu, 2025-09-14 17:17:39

euryapsid skull, and originally the Trilophosaurs were classified with placodonts and sauropterygia. Carroll (1988) suggests that the lower opening may...

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Psephochelys
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:36:48

Psephochelys (meaning "pebbly turtle") is an extinct genus of placodont reptile from the Late Triassic of China. It is represented by a single species...

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Vivian de Buffrénil
Minggu, 2026-03-01 13:59:08

ichthyosaurs, the Permian diapsid Claudiosaurus germaini, champsosaurids, the placodont Placodus, Plesiosauria, the early snakes Simoliophis and Eupodophis, and...

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Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure
Jumat, 2026-05-29 12:00:27

Gorgosaurus, a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur Henodus (cameo), a placodont with an elaborate shell of the Late Triassic period Hesperornis, an extinct...

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Erfurt Formation
Senin, 2026-01-12 07:29:25

(MHI 1426/1-3 & SMNS 91007). A placodont. P. sp. Hoheneck near Ludwigsburg. Isolated plates (SMNS 91008 & 91009). A placodont. Rutiotomodon R. tytthos Schumann...

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Macroplacus
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 05:38:32

Macroplacus is an extinct genus of placodont reptiles. The type species is Macroplacus raeticus and the fossil record of this species dates back to the...

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Glyphoderma
Senin, 2026-01-12 14:35:51

Glyphoderma is an extinct genus of placodont reptile from the Middle Triassic of China with two known species, G. kangi and G. robusta. It differs from...

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Trossingen Formation
Rabu, 2026-06-03 04:41:04

specimen A Henodontidae placodont Placodontia Indeterminate Niederschönthal, Liestal Isolated remains Indeterminate placodont remains Plesiosauria Indeterminate...

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List of examples of convergent evolution
Kamis, 2026-06-04 21:26:37

the Troodontidae, all evolved an arctometatarsus, independently. Some placodonts (like Cyamodus, Psephoderma, Henodus and especially Placochelys) bear...

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Saurichthys
Minggu, 2025-10-12 12:30:44

Philippe; Monod, Olivier; Westphal, Frank (1979). "A new marine fish and placodont reptile fauna of Ladinian age from southwestern Turkey". Neues Jahrbuch...

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Vikinghøgda Formation
Senin, 2026-01-19 12:49:38

ichthyosauromorphs, and may instead suggest affinities with Helveticosaurus or placodonts. Grippia G. longirostris Vendomdalen Member (Grippia Niveau) A small basal...

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Omphalosaurus
Senin, 2026-01-26 01:24:56

palatine, it is unlikely that Omphalosaurus had palatine teeth akin to placodonts. Nonetheless, Omphalosaurus teeth could potentially number in the hundreds...

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Globidensini
Selasa, 2026-05-05 14:52:42

unoccupied for most of the Mesozoic ever since the extinction of the placodonts and the durophagous ichthyosaur Grippia. The rarity of the Globidensini...

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Dinocephalosaurus
Kamis, 2026-04-09 01:06:19

Phalarodon cf. fraasi, the primitive ichthyosaur Xinminosaurus catactes, the placodont Placodus inexpectatus, the nothosaurs Lariosaurus hongguoensis and Nothosaurus...

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Lariosaurus
Kamis, 2026-02-26 15:20:55

live young. Another Lariosaurus skeleton was found with two juvenile placodonts of the genus Cyamodus in its stomach, giving an indication of its diet...

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Bernhard Peyer
Jumat, 2026-03-20 03:05:34

paleontologist Hans Conrad Peyer) in 1926 and they had five children. He named a placodont Cyamodus hildegardis in her honour in 1931. A street in Meride village...

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Quadratojugal bone
Minggu, 2025-10-19 08:17:56

dinosaurs, have a complete lower temporal bar. This is also the case in placodonts, Trilophosaurus, some rhynchosaurs, and choristoderes. Modern birds have...

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Pantestudines
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:01:47

reptiles including the plesiosaurs and the often superficially turtle-like placodonts, are themselves stem-turtles. This hypothesis had been previously investigated...

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Early Triassic
Selasa, 2026-04-28 16:44:31

marine reptiles such as Tanystropheus, Helveticosaurus, Atopodentatus, placodonts or the thalattosaurs followed later in the Middle Triassic. The Anisian...

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Trilophosaurus
Rabu, 2025-06-04 07:46:07

needed] Because of this, the trilophosaurs were once classified with placodonts within Sauropterygia. Carroll (1988) suggested that the lower opening...

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Physiology of underwater diving
Senin, 2026-05-18 09:08:54

familiar clades as the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. After the mass extinction...

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Hanosaurus
Minggu, 2025-09-28 15:10:40

(2015). "The cranial anatomy of Chinese placodonts and the phylogeny of Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia): Placodont Cranial Anatomy and Phylogeny". Zoological...

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Besanosaurus
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:46:56

Tintori, A. (2012). "Revised paleoecology of placodonts – with a comment on 'The shallow marine placodont Cyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin:...

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2025 in reptile paleontology
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:58:26

Glyphoderma kangi, providing new information on the anatomy of the studied placodont. Ruciński et al. (2025) describe fossil material of a member of the genus...

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Cymbospondylus
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:27:06

marine reptiles of this formation. Among these are the shell-crushing placodonts Paraplacodus and Cyamodus. as well as pachypleurosaurs and nothosaurids...

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Besano Formation
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 03:26:47

45: 1–104. Rieppel, Olivier (2002). "The dermal armor of cyamodontoid placodonts (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): morphology and systematic value". Fieldiana...

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Pappochelys
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:27:18

Instead, they proposed Pappochelys was actually a sauropterygian related to placodonts while turtles were derived parareptiles. The claystone bed in which fossils...

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List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
Kamis, 2026-05-21 16:23:06

lived in deep water. Its teeth are similar to those of some Triassic placodonts, so it may have lived a similar lifestyle, feeding on shellfish, large...

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Guanling Formation
Rabu, 2026-05-20 12:06:34

placodontiform affinities Placodus P. inexpectatus Yangjuan Village, Xinmin Upper Member A skeleton A medium-sized placodontid placodont, known from a...

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Molluscivore
Kamis, 2025-12-25 09:51:03

often by biting the shell, like with oyster crackers, mosasaurs, and placodonts, or hammering at the shell, e.g. oystercatchers and crabs, or by simply...

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Marine vertebrate
Selasa, 2025-09-30 08:03:53

the seas, including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Marine reptiles were...

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List of marine reptiles
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 02:00:34

Ankylosphenodon Dinocephalosaurus: Middle Triassic Tanystropheus: Middle Triassic Placodonts: Triassic Cyamodus Henodus Palatodonta Paraplacodus Placochelys Placodus...

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Holwell Quarries
Sabtu, 2023-02-04 01:14:26

deposits have also yielded 8 or 9 genera of Reptiles: a Crocodilian, a Placodont (the first record in Britain of this sub-order), and the dinosaurs Thecodontosaurus...

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Secondarily aquatic tetrapods
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:57:28

same event which killed the non-avian dinosaurs. Sauropterygians include placodonts, nothosaurs, plesiosaurs, and pliosaurs. During the Paleocene Epoch (about...

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Wimanius
Minggu, 2026-05-17 23:53:55

Tintori, A. (2012). "Revised paleoecology of placodonts – with a comment on 'The shallow marine placodont Cyamodus of the central European Germanic Basin:...

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2014 in reptile paleontology
Jumat, 2026-04-17 23:58:15

1127/0077-7749/2014/0382. Nicole Klein & Torsten M. Scheyer (2014). "A new placodont sauropterygian from the Middle Triassic of the Netherlands". Acta Palaeontologica...

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Timeline of ichthyosaur research
Jumat, 2025-12-12 06:43:17

thought it was the first member of a new group of reptiles related to placodonts or rhynchosaurs but it would actually come to be recognized as ichthyosaurian...

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Tangasauridae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:23:05

Sauropterygia, which includes many highly derived marine aquatic reptiles such as placodonts, nothosaurs, and plesiosaurs. Despite the controversy over the definition...

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Diadectidae
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:53:37

paleontologists regarded diadectids, along with other cotylosaurs (such as placodonts), to be close relatives of turtles. In most recent studies of early tetrapod...

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2024 in reptile paleontology
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 01:53:16

Middle and Late Triassic placodonts from Europe, interpreted as suggestive of different diet composition of the studied placodonts (with some taxa unlikely...

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2008 in paleontology
Senin, 2025-11-17 10:18:32

S2CID 131337703. Li-Jun Zhao; Chun Li; Jun Liu; Tao He (2008). "A new armored placodont from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan Province, Southwestern China". Vertebrata...

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Majiashanosaurus
Jumat, 2026-03-13 16:18:34

is unique among eosauropterygians, but resembles the condition seen in placodonts. Da-Yong Jiang; Ryosuke Motani; Andrea Tintori; Olivier Rieppel; Guan-Bao...

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Sauropterygiformes
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:32:02

Neenan, J. M.; Klein, N.; Scheyer, T. M. (2013). "European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia"...

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2018 in reptile paleontology
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:39:27

de Miguel Chaves; Francisco Ortega; Adán Pérez-García (2018). "A new placodont from the Upper Triassic of Spain provides new insights on the acquisition...

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2015 in reptile paleontology
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 01:25:03

Martin et al. (2015). A study on the growth patterns and strategies of placodonts is published by Klein et al. (2015). A study on the sexual selection and...

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2022 in reptile paleontology
Jumat, 2026-05-08 16:02:26

Cretaceous ichthyosaurs is published by Zverkov (2022). Description of two placodont dentaries from the Muschelkalk of the Netherlands and Germany, possibly...

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2013 in paleontology
Rabu, 2026-04-15 09:41:41

Neenan; Nicole Klein & Torsten M. Scheyer (2013). "European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia"...

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2020 in reptile paleontology
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:42:05

on the osteology and evolution of the temporal region of the skull of placodonts is published by Maisch et al. (2020). A study on the anatomy of the skull...

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2017 in reptile paleontology
Selasa, 2026-04-07 07:41:53

the morphology of the occlusal surface of placodont teeth and its implications for the diet of the placodonts is published by Crofts et al. (2017). New...

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Honghesaurus
Senin, 2025-03-31 02:35:52

Youngina as a reference point for rooting the tree. Using a selection of placodonts resulted in a less resolved topology. Paleontology portal Xu, Guang-Hui;...

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