El registro de sauropterigios triásicos también ha tenido un huequito entre los trabajos presentados por los miembros del Grupo de Biología Evolutiva de la UNED en en el XVII Annual Meeting de la EAVP celebrado recientemente en Bruselas. Allí se presentó un póster en el que se re-evaluaba la validez de Partanosaurus zitteli, un taxón de sauropterigio poco conocido del Triásico Medio de Austria, que había sido considerado durante décadas un sinónimo de Simosaurus gaillardoti.
Aquí tenéis el resumen:
For more than two decades, Simosaurus gaillardoti, from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of France and Germany, was considered the only valid taxon within the sauropterygian clade Simosauridae. Thus, Partanosaurus zitteli, a problematic sauropterygian taxon whose remains were found in the 19th century in the Ladinian of the Austrian Alps, has been considered a junior synonym of Simosaurus gaillardoti. However, the discovery of new simosaurian remains, including the recently described Paludidraco multidentatus, from the Upper Triassic of Central Spain, as well as other fragmentary remains from the Middle and Upper Triassic of Europe and the Middle East, allows us to re-evaluate the validity of Partanosaurus zitteli. An exclusive combination of characters not present in Simosaurus gaillardoti or Paludidraco multidentatus supports the hypothesis that Partanosaurus zitteli is a valid taxon within the sauropterygian clade Simosauridae. The diversity of the clade Simosauridae is recognized as higher than previously expected.
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- Imagen: Alejandro Serrano posa delante del póster de turno en el congreso, en representación de los autores ausentes.
- Referencia: Miguel Chaves, C. de; Ortega, F.; Pérez-García, A. 2019. Re-evaluating the validity of Partanosaurus zitteli (Sauropterygia), from the Middle Triassic of Austria. XVII Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists, Abstract Book, 72.
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