An articulated sauropterygian marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of the South-Iberian Palaeomargin, Betic Cordillera, Southeastern Spain

Abstract

In the Germanic Basin, from the Muschelkalk deposits, the most abundant reptiles in shallow marine sediments were Sauropterygia (e.g. Rieppel 2000;Klein et al. 2015).Along the Iberian Palaeomargin, with Germanic facies (today outcropping in the Pyrenean Cordillera, Catalonian Coastal Range, the Iberian Range, the Betic External Zones and the Algarve Basin), the record of marine reptiles is also relatively rich but most of the reported remains consist of isolated elements (e.g.