Name:
Macrocnemus
(Large tibia).
Phonetic: Mak-roe-ne-mus.
Named By: F. Nopcsa - 1931.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Archosauromorpha, Protorosauria.
Species: M. basanii
(type), M. fuyuanensis, M. obristi .
Diet: Insectivore?
Size: Specimens range from 20 to 100
centimetres long.
Known locations: Europe and China.
Time period: Mid Triassic.
Fossil representation: Many individuals.
Macrocnemus is a genus of extinct archosauromorph that seems to have had a wide distribution during the Triassic given that fossils of the genus are known from central Europe and China.
Further reading
- Macrocnemus nicht Macrochemus.
Centralblatt fur Mineralogie. -
Geologic und Palaeontologie; Stuttgart. 1931 Abt B 655–656.
- F. Nopcsa - 1931.
- Skin remains in a juvenile Macrocnemus bassanii
Nopsca
(Reptilia, Prolacertiformes) from the Middle Triassic of Northern
Italy. - Jahrbuch Geologie und Pal�ontologie, Abhandlung
224(1):31-48. - S. Renesto & M. Avanzini -
2002.
- A new species of Macrocnemus (Reptilia:
Protorosauria) from
the Middle Triassic of southwestern China and its palaeogeographical
implication. - Science in China D, Earth Sciences
50(11)1601-1605. - C. Li, L. -J. Zhao & L.
-T. Wang - 2007.
- New information on the protorosaurian reptile Macrocnemus
fuyuanensis Li et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper
Triassic of
Yunnan, China - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (6):
1230–1237. - D. -Y. Jiang, O. Rieppel, N. C.
Fraser, R. Motani, W. -C. Haoa, A. Tintorie, Y. -L.
Suna & Z. Y. Suna - 2011.
- A new species of Macrocnemus from the Middle Triassic of the eastern
Swiss Alps. - Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 106 (2): 199–206. -
Nicholas Fraser & Heinz Furrer - 2013.