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Smithosaurus

Smithosaurus

Vasilyan, Čerňanský, Szyndlar & Mörs, 2022

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Fig. 13
Vasilyan, Davit, Cernansky, Andrej, Szyndlar, Zbigniew, Moers, Thomas (2022): Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany. Fossil Record 25 (1): 99-145, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781
Diagnosis. As for Smithosaurus echzellensis, the only known species.
Vasilyan, Davit, Cernansky, Andrej, Szyndlar, Zbigniew, Moers, Thomas (2022): Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany. Fossil Record 25 (1): 99-145, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781
Etymology. We name this genus in honour of American paleoherpetologist Krister T. Smith for his valuable contributions to vertebrate paleontology and particularly to squamate morphology and evolution; and from Greek σαύρα [saura], lizard.
Vasilyan, Davit, Cernansky, Andrej, Szyndlar, Zbigniew, Moers, Thomas (2022): Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany. Fossil Record 25 (1): 99-145, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781

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Figure 13. Smithosaurus echzellensis gen. et sp. nov. Holotypic parietal UMJGP 204.749 from the Gratkorn locality in (A) dorsal, and (B) ventral views. Paratypic parietal HLMD-Ez 1965 from the Echzell locality in (C) dorsal and (D) ventral views.

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Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Vasilyan, Davit, Cernansky, Andrej, Szyndlar, Zbigniew, Moers, Thomas (2022): Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany. Fossil Record 25 (1): 99-145, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/fr.25.83781

Vasilyan D, Cernansky A, Szyndlar Z, Moers T, pensoft (2022). Amphibian and reptilian fauna from the early Miocene of Echzell, Germany. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fvb6q2 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

CC0Published 5/10/2022View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
203870963
Dataset Key
879a081e-5c23-41a3-b500-84ae793fb677
Origin
source
Backbone Key
12051114
Taxon ID
66DBAC088DC3551381E87150A41906F2.taxon
Last Crawled
6/9/2026
Last Interpreted
6/9/2026