Pomolispondylus (meaning "knobbly vertebra" in Greek) is an extinct genus of reptile known from the Early Triassic Jialingjiang Formation of China. It contains a single species, Pomolispondylus biani.[1]
| Pomolispondylus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | †Saurosphargiformes |
| Genus: | †Pomolispondylus Cheng et al., 2022 |
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| †Pomolispondylus biani Cheng et al., 2022
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Phylogenetic analysis found it to be most closely related to Saurosphargidae, a Middle Triassic family of marine reptiles. The describing authors erected a new group, Saurosphargiformes, including both Pomolispondylus and Saurosphargidae.
References
edit- ^ Cheng, Long; C. Moon, Benjamin; Yan, Chunbo; Motani, Ryosuke; Jiang, Dayong; An, Zhihui; Fang, Zichen (2022-07-14). "The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery". PeerJ. 10: e13569. doi:10.7717/peerj.13569. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 9288826.