Temporal range: Early Triassic, Olenekian, Olenekian
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Specimen WGSC 26004
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Hupehsuchia
Family:
†Hupehsuchidae
Genus:
†Hupehsuchus Young, 1972
Type species
†Hupehsuchus nanchangensis
Young, 1972
Life restoration of Hupehsuchus nanchangensis
Hupehsuchus is an extinct genus of small marine reptiles, about 1 m (3 ft) long, found in the area of Hubei in China.[1] This marine reptile lived in the Olenekian stage of the Early Triassic period.[2] It was probably a filter feeder, like modern baleen whales.[3]
^Li, Qiang; Liu, Jun (2020). "An Early Triassic sauropterygian and associated fauna from South China provide insights into Triassic ecosystem health". Communications Biology. 3 (1). 63. doi:10.1038/s42003-020-0778-7. PMC 7012838. PMID 32047220.
^Chen, X. H.; Motani, R.; Cheng, L.; Jiang, D. Y.; Rieppel, O. (2014). "A Carapace-Like Bony 'Body Tube' in an Early Triassic Marine Reptile and the Onset of Marine Tetrapod Predation". PLOS ONE. 9 (4): e94396. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...994396C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094396. PMC 3981804. PMID 24718682.
^Fang, Zi-Chen (8 August 2023). "First filter feeding in the Early Triassic: cranial morphological convergence between Hupehsuchus and baleen whales". BMC Ecology and Evolution. 23 (36): 36. doi:10.1186/s12862-023-02143-9. ISSN 2730-7182. PMC 10408079. PMID 37550649.
baleen whales. Hupehsuchus was similar to its close relative, Nanchangosaurus, but differed from it in a number of ways. For example, Hupehsuchus had heavier...
Another genus, Hupehsuchus, was named in 1972 from a locality in the Xunjian Commune of Nanzhang County. Nanchangosaurus and Hupehsuchus do not differ...
consisting of the last common ancestor of Ichthyosaurus communis and Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, and all its descendants. Their synapomorphies, unique...
includes the very similar Hupehsuchus. In fact, the two may be congeneric. A few differences between the two species are seen. Hupehsuchus had heavier armor and...
ichthyosauromorphs that are more closely related to Ichthyosaurus communis than to Hupehsuchus nanchangensis. Their synapomorphies include the possession of a long...
Parahupehsuchus is very elongated; it has 38 dorsal vertebrae, 10 more than in Hupehsuchus and the unnamed hupehsuchian IVPP V4070. The rib cage of Parahupehsuchus...
scene in the Olenekian (e.g. Cartorhynchus, Chaohusaurus, Utatsusaurus, Hupehsuchus, Grippia, Omphalosaurus, Corosaurus). Other marine reptiles such as Tanystropheus...
skull than those of Hupehsuchus and Nanchangosaurus, and its frontal bones are narrow and rectangular. In contrast, in Hupehsuchus and Nanchangasaurus...
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