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    China. Shastasaurus lived during the late Triassic period. The type species, S. pacificus, is known from California, with the name Shastasaurus directly...
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    with the newly described genus Shastasaurus. In 1999, Ryosuke Motani erected the clade Shastasauria to include Shastasaurus, Shonisaurus, and several other...
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    and colleagues in 2011 later showed S. sikanniensis to be a species of Shastasaurus rather than Shonisaurus. A subsequent study by Ji and colleagues published...
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  • in 2013. In 2011 Guanlingsaurus liangae was reassigned to the genus Shastasaurus, which includes two species from North America that are known from more...
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    Shonisaurus and Himalayasaurus, and an aulacodont dentition analogous to Shastasaurus. The morphology of the posterior jaw was considered unique at the time...
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    Germany. It was discovered in 1965 and named in 1997 as a species of Shastasaurus by Sander in the rocks of the Upper Muschelkalk. More recently, in 2005...
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    phylogenetic terms as a stem-based taxon including "the last common ancestor of Shastasaurus pacificus and Ichthyosaurus communis, and all of its descendants." The...
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    Nicholls uncovered the largest known specimen, a 23-metre-long (75 ft) Shastasaurus. The new finds have allowed a gradual improvement in knowledge about...
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  • Sachicasaurus Ichthyosaurus Ichthyotitan Mixosaurus Ophthalmosaurus Shastasaurus Shonisaurus Champsosaurus Simoedosaurus ?Pachystropheus (sometimes considered...
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    Shastasaurus pacificus Callawayia neoscapularis...
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    Guizhouichthyosaurus to be quite distinct from Shastasaurus, and while Shang and Li again used the name Shastasaurus tangae in a 2013 paper, Guizhouichthyosaurus...
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  • Germany. John Campbell Merriam (1902) described it as a new species of Shastasaurus, S. perrini, honouring Professor James Perrin Smith as discoverer, based...
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  • Christopher McGowan reviewed the taxonomy of Shastasaurus. In this publication, he named a new species of Shastasaurus, S. neoscapularis, based on ROM (Royal...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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    Shastasaurus...
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    possible that Besanosaurus represented another specimen of the related Shastasaurus, Besanosaurus has otherwise been accepted as a valid taxon. The holotype...
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    marine reptile ever. Another large ichthyosaur was the Late Triassic Shastasaurus sikanniensis at 21 m (69 ft) in length and 81.5 t (180,000 lb) in weight...
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  • the largest ichthyosaur was believed to be the Late Triassic species Shastasaurus sikanniensis, at approximately 21 m (69 ft) long and 81.5 t (180,000 lb)...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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    was brief but they returned with three significant fossils including Shastasaurus alexandre named in honor of Alexander. Little is known about this trip...
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  • those belonging to the largest ichthyosaur with preserved vertebrae, Shastasaurus sikanniensis, it may have been among the largest vertebrates to ever...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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    Seceda [it], Italy. The described specimen was first referred by the author to Shastasaurus sp., before being referred to Cymbospondylus in the official description...
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  • Shang Qing-Hua; Li Chun (2009). "On the occurrence of the ichthyosaur Shastasaurus in the Guanling Biota (Late Triassic), Guizhou, China" (PDF). Vertebrata...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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  • Merriam (1905) erected Delphinosaurus for the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Shastasaurus perrini from California, but because Delphinosaurus was already in use...
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    Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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  • Wimanius? Shastasauridae Besanosaurus? Guanlingsaurus? Guizhouichthyosaurus? Himalayasaurus? Ichthyotitan? Shastasaurus Shonisaurus? Euichthyosauria...
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