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New marine vertebrate fauna from the Middle Triassic of Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

P. Martin Sander ,
Olivier C. Rieppel  and
H. Bucher
P. Martin Sander
Affiliation:
Institute of Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussalle 8, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Olivier C. Rieppel
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, USA
H. Bucher
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of Canada, 100 West Pender Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 1R8, Canada
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The marine Triassic rocks of Nevada are well known for their ichthyosaur finds, and a number of new genera and species were described from this state. Based on a few vertebrae, Leidy (1868) erected a new Middle Triassic ichthyosaur genus, Cymbospondylys, with two species, C. petrinus and C. piscosus. The type material of C. petrinus came from the Prida Formation of the southern Humboldt Range, and that of C. piscosus from the Favret Formation of the New Pass Range.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 3 , May 1994 , pp. 676 - 680
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