The seabed from 240 million years ago. Visible is a nothosaurid tooth and a fragment of a gastralium.

SilesianTriassic

Category: Limbs

  • Placodontia indet., humerus fragment, 19/LMK

    Placodontia indet., humerus fragment, 19/LMK

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    Placodontia indet. Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds Upper Silesia, Poland The specimen is most likely a distal fragment of a humerus (upper arm bone). The broad, flattened head and the strongly pachyostotic bone structure indicate a placodont. A distinct groove is visible on the left side of the head, a feature noted by…

  • Nothosaurus sp., left coracoid, 18/LMK

    Nothosaurus sp., left coracoid, 18/LMK

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    Specimen of Nothosaurus sp., left coracoid in ventral view. Lower Muschelkalk, Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland

  • Sauropterygia indet., femur 8/LMK

    Sauropterygia indet., femur 8/LMK

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    Sauropterygia indet. Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland An isolated femur of Sauropterygia indet. The damaged (eroded) epiphysis reveals a spongy bone structure in this area (the shaft, in turn, is unusually dense). Those are characteristic features of Sauropterygia long bones. The specimen lacks features that would allow for a more…