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

SilesianTriassic

Tag: Pachypleurosaurus

  • Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus, femur 8/LMK

    Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus, femur 8/LMK

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    Pachypleurosauridae cf. Dactylosaurus Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland A beautiful specimen of a femur, probably from a Dactylosaurus. Dactylosaurus is the most abundant member of the Pachypleurosauridae in the Silesian Lower Muschelkalk. They were small, aquatic reptiles with basal, primitive adaptations to this environment I found the bone in the…

  • Pachypleurosauridae vertebra 5/LMK

    Pachypleurosauridae vertebra 5/LMK

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    Sauropterygia ?Pachypleurosauridae indet. complete vertebra Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland The vast majority of fossil vertebrate specimens in the Silesian Muschelkalk are single, isolated bones. As for the vertebrae themselves, I most often encounter vertebral centra, sometimes neural arches. Complete vertebrae, however, are truly rare – almost always separated into…

  • Pachypleurosauridae disarticulated elements 4/LMK

    Pachypleurosauridae disarticulated elements 4/LMK

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    Sauropterygia ?Pachypleurosauridae indet. Disarticulated elements (tooth, neural arch, vertebral centrum) Middle Triassic, Lower Muschelkalk (Anisian), Gogolin Beds, Upper Silesia, Poland Here, you can see three specimens in one. The rock fragment contains disarticulated parts of the skeleton of a small Sauropterygian – a tooth, a vertebra centrum, and a neural arch. Given their age and…