Macrocnemus

Macrocnemus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 245–228 Ma
Various specimens of Macrocnemus from Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Archosauromorpha
Clade: †Tanysauria
Family: †Tanystropheidae
Genus: †Macrocnemus
Nopcsa, 1931
Species
  • † M. bassanii Nopsca, 1931 (type)
  • † M. fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007
  • † M. obristi Fraser & Furrer, 2013

Macrocnemus is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile known from the Middle Triassic (Late Anisian to Ladinian) of Europe and China. Macrocnemus is a member of the Tanystropheidae family and includes three species. Macrocnemus bassanii, the first species to be named and described, is known from the Besano Formation and adjacent paleontological sites in the Italian and Swiss Alps.[1] Macrocnemus fuyuanensis, on the other hand, is known from the Zhuganpo Formation in southern China.[2] A third species, Macrocnemus obristi, is known from the Prosanto Formation of Switzerland and is characterized by gracile limbs.[3] The name Macrocnemus is Greek for "long tibia".

  1. ^ Nopcsa, Ferenc (1930). "Notizen über Macrochemus bassanii nov. gen. et spec". Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B. 7: 252–255.
  2. ^ Jiang, Da-Yong; Rieppel, Olivier; Fraser, Nicholas C; Motani, Ryosuke; Hao, Wei-Cheng; Tintori, Andrea; Sun, Yuan-Lin; Sun, Zuo-Yu (2011). "New information on the protorosaurian reptile Macrocnemus fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (6): 1230–1237. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31.1230J. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.610853. S2CID 131615836.
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