A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China

Ryosuke Motani (), Da-Yong Jiang (), Guan-Bao Chen, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Cheng Ji and Jian-Dong Huang
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Ryosuke Motani: University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA
Da-Yong Jiang: Laboratory of Orogenic Belt and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Yiheyuan Street 5, Beijing 100871, China
Guan-Bao Chen: Anhui Geological Museum, Jiahe Road 999, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China
Andrea Tintori: Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli, 34-20133 Milan, Italy
Olivier Rieppel: Center of Integrative Research, The Field Museum
Cheng Ji: Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
Jian-Dong Huang: Anhui Geological Museum, Jiahe Road 999, Hefei, Anhui 230031, China

Nature, 2015, vol. 517, issue 7535, 485-488

Abstract: The Ichthyopterygia appeared in the fossil record as fully evolved, aquatic creatures, with nothing known about their transition from land to water, but now some light is shed on this transition by a fossil from the Lower Triassic of southern China of a small, primitive and possibly amphibious ichthyosaur-like creature, close to the common ancestry of ichthyosaurs and the obscure Hupehsuchia, a group of extinct aquatic reptiles known only from southern China.

Date: 2015
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