Vellbergia bartholomaei Sobral, Simoes, & Schoch 2020
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
- 2. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Institut für Biologie, Universität Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 30, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Description
Vellbergia bartholomaei Sobral, Simões, & Schoch, 2020
Holotype.
SMNS 91590, partial skull obliquely exposed in left lateral view (Fig. 11 B).
Type locality.
Schumann Quarry, Bed E 6, near Eschenau, Vellberg municipality, Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg.
Type horizon.
Untere Graue Mergel, Erfurt Formation, Lower Keuper Subgroup. Age: Middle Triassic (Ladinian: Longobardian).
Diagnosis.
Distinguished by the following combination of features: frontal with distinct anterolateral and large posterolateral process; prefrontal dorsoventrally deep and not expanded; and symphyseal portion of hemimandible strongly turned medially (based on Sobral et al. 2020).
Comments.
The phylogenetic analysis by Sobral et al. (2020) found Vellbergia bartholomaei as an early-diverging lepidosauromorph. Ford et al. (2021) recovered this taxon as the sister-taxon to Rhynchocephalia.
References.
Sobral et al. (2020), Ford et al. (2021).
Notes
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- SMNS
- Material sample ID
- SMNS 91590
- Scientific name authorship
- Sobral, Simoes, & Schoch
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Genus
- Vellbergia
- Species
- bartholomaei
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Vellbergia bartholomaei Sobral, 2020 sec. Sues & Schoch, 2025
References
- Sobral G, Simões T, Schoch RR (2020) A tiny new Middle Triassic stem-lepidosauromorph from Germany: implications for the early evolution of lepidosauromorphs and the Vellberg fauna. Scientific Reports 10: 2273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-58883-x
- Ford DP, Evans SE, Choiniere JN, Fernandez V, Benson RBJ (2021) A reassessment of the enigmatic diapsid Paliguana whitei and the early history of Lepidosauromorpha. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20211084. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1084