Skip to main content
. 2023 Aug 16;142(1):15. doi: 10.1186/s13358-023-00277-3

Table 1.

Material included in this study. The material of Askeptosaurus italicus is from the locality of Monte San Giorgio (middle Besano Formation, late Anisian). The material of the thalattosauroid (Thalattosauria indet.) from Oregon, USA, comes from the Brisbois Member of the Vester Formation and is of late Carnian age

Taxon Bone Comment
Askeptosaurus italicus

 PIMUZ T 4839

(large individual)

Right femur

12 cm long

Cross section

Left femur

not measured because incompletely preserved

Cross section

Centrum of anterior tail vertebra

(PIMUZ T 4839_vert_a)

Transverse section

centrum very compacted

Centrum of posterior tail vertebra

(PIMUZ T 4839_vert_b)

Transverse section

centrum very compacted

Rib Cross section

PIMUZ T 4840

(small individual)

Right femur

8.5 cm

Cross section
Gastralium Cross section
Thalattosauria indet.
 MNCH F71616 Middle dorsal centrum Transverse section
2.1 cm length, 2.85 cm height, 3.28 cm width
 MNCH F70662 Posterior dorsal centrum Sagittal section
1.8 cm length, 2.55 cm height, 3.1 cm width
 MNCH F64330 Middle caudal centrum

Sagittal section

Figure 2.16 in Metz, 2019

1.91 cm length, 3.1 cm height, 3.11 cm width
 MNCH F64316

Left humerus

8.1 cm long

Core sample

Transverse section

Figure 2.18 in Metz, 2019

 MNCH F64270

Humerus

7.1 cm long

Core sample

Longitudinal section/cut obliqually