New taxa

Lorrainosaurus keileni skeleton drawing by Joschua Knüppe

Plesiosaurs

Franconiasaurus Sachs, Eggmaier & Madzia, 2024

Type species Franconiasaurus brevispinus Sachs, Eggmaier & Madzia, 2024

Plesiosauroid, uppermost Lower Jurassic, upper Toarcian, Mistelgau, Franconia, Germany

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Franconiasaurus brevispinus holotype specimen. Urweltmuseum Bayreuth
Lorrainosaurus keileni mandible in ventral view

Lorrainosaurus Sachs, Madzia, Thuy & Kear, 2023

Type species Lorrainosaurus keileni (Godefroit, 1994)

Thalassophonean pliosaurid, Middle Jurassic, Bajocian, near Montois-la-Montagne, Lorraine, France

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Lagenanectes Sachs, Hornung & Kear, 2017

Type species Lagenanectes richterae Sachs, Hornung & Kear, 2017

Elasmosaurid plesiosaurian, Lower Cretaceous, Hauterivian, Sarstedt, northern Germany

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Arminisaurus schuberti silhoette showing the preserved bones

Arminisaurus Sachs & Kear, 2017

Type species Arminisaurus schuberti Sachs & Kear, 2017

Pliosaurid plesiosaurian, Lower Jurassic, Pliensbachian, Bielefeld, northwestern Germany

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Eromangasaurus australis (Sachs, 2005) [originally described as Tuarangisaurus australis Sachs, 2005]

Elasmosaurid plesiosaurian, Lower Cretaceous, Albian, Queensland, Australia

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Eromangasaurus australis skull in lateral view

Thalattosuchia

Skull of Enalioetes schroederi in lateral view

Enalioetes Sachs, Young, Hornung, Cowgill, Schwab & Brusatte, 2024

Type species Enalioetes schroederi Sachs, Young, Hornung, Cowgill, Schwab & Brusatte, 2024

Metriorhynchid crocodylomorph, Lower Cretaceous, Valanginian, Sachsenhagen, northern Germany

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Thalattosuchus Young, Brignon, Sachs, Hornung, Foffa, Kitson, Johnson & Steel, 2020

Type species Thalattosuchus superciliosus (Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1852)

Metriorhynchid crocodylomorph, Middle Jurassic, Callovian, known from various localities in France, England and Germany

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Skeleton of Thalattosuchus superciliosus at Tübingen
Cricosaurus albersdoerferi holotype skeleton

Cricosaurus albersdoerferi Sachs, Young, Abel & Mallison, 2021

Metriorhynchid crocodylomorph, Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, Painten, southern Germany

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Cricosaurus bambergensis  Sachs, Young, Abel & Mallison, 2019

Metriorhynchid crocodylomorph, Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian, Wattendorf, southern Germany

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New thalattosuchian clade names

Neothalattosuchia Young, Wilberg, Johnson, Herrera, Andrade, Brignon, Sachs, Abel, Foffa, Fernandez, Vignaud, Cowgill & Brusatte, 2024

Euthalattosuchia Young, Wilberg, Johnson, Herrera, Andrade, Brignon, Sachs, Abel, Foffa, Fernandez, Vignaud, Cowgill & Brusatte, 2024

Dakosaurina Young, Wilberg, Johnson, Herrera, Andrade, Brignon, Sachs, Abel, Foffa, Fernandez, Vignaud, Cowgill & Brusatte, 2024

Temnospondyls

Cyclotosaurus buechneri  Witzmann, Sachs & Nyhuis, 2016

Mastodonsaurid temnospondyl, Late Triassic, Carnian, Bielefeld, northwestern Germany

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