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Eretmorhipis

Wikipedia Abstract

Eretmorhipis (meaning "oar fan" from the Greek ερετμον ("oar") and ῥιπίς ("fan")) is an extinct genus of hupehsuchian marine reptile from the Early Triassic of China. It is currently known from two specimens that were discovered in an exposure of the Jialingjiang Formation in Yuan'an County, Hubei and referred to the newly named species Eretmorhipis carrolldongi in 2015. One of those specimens, the holotype WGSC V26020, had been known since 1991 and consists of the entire skeleton excluding the skull. The second specimen, IVPP V4070, is an impression of the right side of the back half of the skeleton, as well as part of the right forelimb. Eretmorhipis is unique among hupehsuchians in having manual and pedal digits that radiate in a fan-like shape. Like other hupehsuchians it has three ove
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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0