Pomolispondylus

Pomolispondylus
Temporal range: Early Triassic
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: †Saurosphargiformes
Genus: †Pomolispondylus
Cheng et al., 2022
Type species
†Pomolispondylus biani
Cheng et al., 2022

Pomolispondylus (meaning "knobbly vertebra" in Greek) is an extinct genus of reptile known from the Early Triassic Jialingjiang Formation of China. It contains a single species, Pomolispondylus biani.[1]

Phylogenetic analysis found it to be most closely related to Saurosphargidae, a Middle Triassic family of marine reptiles. The describing authors erected a new group, Saurosphargiformes, including both Pomolispondylus and Saurosphargidae.

References

  1. ^ 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.