{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10"],"submitter":["Ren J"],"pubmed_abstract":["Here we describe a newly discovered basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic of South China, <i>Baisesaurus robustus</i> gen. et sp. nov. The only known specimen of this new species was collected from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Luolou Formation in the Zhebao region of Baise City, on the northwest margin of the Nanpanjiang Basin, and comprises a partial skeleton including the ribs, the gastralia, a limb element, 12 centra, and seven neural arches. Comparisons to a wide variety of Early Triassic marine reptiles show <i>Baisesaurus robustus</i> to be a basal ichthyosauromorph based on the following features: neural arches lack transverse processes; dorsal ribs are slender, and not pachyostotic even proximally; and median gastral elements have long, sharp anterior processes. The lim"],"journal":["PeerJ"],"pagination":["e13209"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8995025"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China."],"pmcid":["PMC8995025"],"pubmed_authors":["Sullivan C","He Y","Ren J","Jiang H","Cheng L","Xiang K","Han F"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China.","description":"Here we describe a newly discovered basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic of South China, <i>Baisesaurus robustus</i> gen. et sp. nov. The only known specimen of this new species was collected from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Luolou Formation in the Zhebao region of Baise City, on the northwest margin of the Nanpanjiang Basin, and comprises a partial skeleton including the ribs, the gastralia, a limb element, 12 centra, and seven neural arches. Comparisons to a wide variety of Early Triassic marine reptiles show <i>Baisesaurus robustus</i> to be a basal ichthyosauromorph based on the following features: neural arches lack transverse processes; dorsal ribs are slender, and not pachyostotic even proximally; and median gastral elements have long, sharp anterior processes. The lim","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022","modification":"2025-04-05T00:27:34.361Z","creation":"2025-04-05T00:27:34.361Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8995025","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35415016"],"doi":["10.7717/peerj.13209"]}}