- China.
Shastasaurus lived during the late Tri****ic period. The type species, S. pacificus, is
known from California, with the name
Shastasaurus directly...
- with the
newly described genus Shastasaurus. In 1999,
Ryosuke Motani erected the
clade Shastasauria to
include Shastasaurus, Shonisaurus, and
several other...
- and
colleagues in 2011
later showed S.
sikanniensis to be a
species of
Shastasaurus rather than Shonisaurus. A
subsequent study by Ji and
colleagues published...
- in 2013. In 2011
Guanlingsaurus liangae was re****igned to the
genus Shastasaurus,
which includes two
species from
North America that are
known from more...
-
Shonisaurus and Himalayasaurus, and an
aulacodont dentition analogous to
Shastasaurus. The
morphology of the
posterior jaw was
considered unique at the time...
- Germany. It was
discovered in 1965 and
named in 1997 as a
species of
Shastasaurus by
Sander in the
rocks of the
Upper Muschelkalk. More recently, in 2005...
-
Guizhouichthyosaurus to be
quite distinct from
Shastasaurus, and
while Shang and Li
again used the name
Shastasaurus tangae in a 2013 paper, Guizhouichthyosaurus...
-
phylogenetic terms as a stem-based
taxon including "the last
common ancestor of
Shastasaurus pacificus and
Ichthyosaurus communis, and all of its descendants." The...
-
Nicholls uncovered the
largest known specimen, a 23-metre-long (75 ft)
Shastasaurus. The new
finds have
allowed a
gradual improvement in
knowledge about...
-
possible that
Besanosaurus represented another specimen of the
related Shastasaurus,
Besanosaurus has
otherwise been
accepted as a
valid taxon. The holotype...
