A New Ladinian Nothosauroid (Sauropterygia) from Fuyuan, Yunnan Province, China
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Brevicaudosaurus jiyangshanensis, gen. et sp. nov., a new nothosauroid, is established on the basis of two nearly complete skeletons from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China. Its skull is diagnostic in having a wide and constricted snout, a large supratemporal fossa slightly larger than the orbit, and a parietal table strongly constricted posteriorly. Postcranial specializations include a short trunk with 14 dorsal vertebrae, a short tail shorter than the skull-neck region in length, a stout anterolateral process on the clavicle, an extremely massive and broadened mid-diaphysis of the humerus, a strongly expanded proximal head of the ulna, seven ossified carpals, and a phalangeal reduction in the pes. In addition, the strongly pachyostotic postcranial skeleton may indicate a slow mode of swimming underwater and a benthic carnivorous feeding habit for B. jiyangshanensis. Phylogenetically, it is the sister taxon of the Nothosaurus-Lariosaurus clade within Nothosauroidea. The discovery of this new nothosauroid not only contributes to local faunal diversity and expands the known range of sauropterygian life styles during the late Middle Triassic, but also provides a chance to test the phylogenetic relationships of the Eosauropterygia hypothesized by previous studies.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:026D8680-CC71-47BD-A681-F5B6F140B84
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".