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  • Keichousaurus hui Young, 1958

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    Taxonomy

    Baby Keichousaurus

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Chordata
    Class: Reptilia
    Order: Sauropterygia
    Family: Pachypleuridae
    Genus: Keichousaurus
    Species: Keichousaurus hui
    Author Citation Young, 1958

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Triassic
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Middle
    International Age: Ladinian

    Stratigraphy

    Falang Formation

    Provenance

    Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

    Location

    Langmu
    Xingyi City
    Guizhou
    China

    Comments

    Baby Keichousaurus, ventral view.

    Functional Morphology and ontogeny of Keichousaurus hui Reptilia Sauropterygia.pdf

     

    References:

    Liao JL, Lan T, Xu GH, Li J, Qin YJ, Zhao MS, Li YL and Wang Y (2021) Tooth Structure and Replacement of the Triassic Keichousaurus (Sauropterygia, Reptilia) From South China. Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:741851. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2021.741851

     

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    RJB

    You seem to have an endless supply of super good high grade fossils? !!! 

     

    Ron

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    oilshale
    18 hours ago, RJB said:

    You seem to have an endless supply of super good high grade fossils? !!! 

     

    Ron

    I do what I can ;).

    Btw, this Keichousaurus was a gift from a chinese collector : I couldn't understand what he said and he couldn't understand what I was saying but after a couple of beer, we got along real well....

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