This paper integrates the osteological description of the holotype of the pistosauroid eusauropterygian Bobosaurus forojuliensis (lower Carnian, NE Italy), which was first described by Dalla Vecchia (2006), mainly showing in detail the...
moreThis paper integrates the osteological description of the holotype of the pistosauroid eusauropterygian Bobosaurus forojuliensis (lower Carnian, NE Italy), which was first described by Dalla Vecchia (2006), mainly showing in detail the various skeletal elements and by the use of colour photographs. Furthermore, comparisons with the corresponding bones of the other non-plesiosaurian pistosauroids are done, mainly with Yunguisaurus liae and Wangosaurus brevirostris from the upper Ladinian of China, which were still unknown at the time of the first publication of Bobosaurus forojuliensis. The referred specimen MFSN 27854 might belong to a taxon closer to the nothosauroid Simosaurus than to Bobosaurus forojuliensis and should be prudently excluded from the apodigm of the latter.
