Genus Futabasaurus Sato, Hasegawa & Manabe, 2006 Type species: Futabasaurus suzukii Sato, Hasegawa & Manabe, 2006Diagnosis: An elasmosaurid plesiosaurian with the following potential autapomorphis: A ...

Genus Avalonnectes Benson, Evans & Druckenmiller, 2012 Type species: Avalonnectes arturi Benson, Evans & Druckenmiller, 2012Diagnosis: Small-bodied basal rhomaleosaurid (trunk length =735 mm) with 18–...

Genus Nichollssaura Druckenmiller & Russell, 2009 Type species: Nichollssaura borealis (Druckenmiller & Russell, 2008)Diagnosis: Small plesiosaur approximately 2.5 meters in length differing from spec...

Comprehensive systematic and taxonomic overview of Plesiosauria, including valid taxa and nomina dubia based on recent data, with detailed taxon listings.

Genus Attenborosaurus Bakker, 1993 Type species: Attenborosaurus conybeari (Sollas, 1881)Diagnosis: Differs from all other long-necked plesiosaurs in having a more elongated, evenly tapered snout with...

Genus Lorrainosaurus Sachs, Madzia, Thuy & Kear, 2023 Type species: Lorrainosaurus keileni (Godefroit, 1994)Diagnosis: Large-bodied thalassophonean pliosaurid autapomorphically distinguished by a tran...

Die Welt der Plesiosaurier – Paläontologische Abenteuer ist ein Buchprojekt, das ich gemeinsam mit Achim Schwermann verwirklichen konnte (eine Leseprobe finden sie am Ende der Seite) und das zahlreich...

Palaeontological publications of Sven Sachs

Die Welt der Plesiosaurier - Paläontologische Abenteuer | Schwermann, Achim, Sachs, Sven | ISBN: 9783912101027 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.

The transition from the Early to the Middle Jurassic was marked by significant restructuring of plesiosaur communities. While knowledge of the earliest Middle Jurassic plesiosaurs is generally limited...

The centrepiece of the museum Kloster Banz is the 2.3 m long skull of the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus, which was the first fossil ot its kind.

Platypterygius hercynicus is one of the most complete ichthyosaurs known from the Cretaceous. The specimen was discovered in December 1940 in a mine called

In the 1960s, renowned Tübingen-based palaeontologist Friedrich von Huene was given the opportunity to study an incomplete vertebra from the Lower Jurassic

Modelled skull of Lindwurmia thiuda. The original part of the mandible is included in the mount.

In 2023, I had the opportunity to study plesiosaur material at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. While there, I took some time to

Plesionectes longicollum is a new plesiosaur from the Posidonia Shale of Holzmaden, Germany, being characterised by its extremely long neck.

Warm-blooded ichthyosaurs is a study I co-authored in Nature. We found remnants of colour pigments, blubber, blood & internal organs in a Holzmaden fossil.

My name is Sven Sachs and this website introduces the research of me and my colleagues in the field of palaeoherpetology (a subfield of vertebrate

Main slab of the holotype of Franconiasaurus brevispinus (BT 011224.00). Collection of the Urweltmuseum Oberfranken in Bayreuth

Microcleidus macropterus is a plesiosauroid plesiosaur from the Lower Toarcian (Yorkshire Lias, Lower Jurassic) Alum Shale Member of the Whitby Mudstone Formation. The taxon is based on a complete and...

Lusonectes - a plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Portugal

Teleosauroid crocodylomorphs were a successful, diverse and abundant clade that expanded near-globally during the Jurassic Period. Teleosauroids are commonly found in Toarcian strata (Early Jurassic) ...

Here you will find an overview of my publications, sorted by year. For each publication I give the title, the citation and either the abstract or a short description of the content. A pdf of the paper...

Welcome to my website My name is Sven Sachs and this website introduces the research of me and my colleagues in the field of palaeoherpetology (a subfield of vertebrate palaeontology that includes th...

The purpose of this application, under Article 55.3 of the ICZN Code, is to remove the homonymy between the unused Cricosaurinae Koken, 1888 (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha, Metriorhynchidae) (type genus Cricosaurus Wagner, 1858) and the in-use senior homonym Cricosaurinae Cope, 1875 (Lepidosauria, Squamata, Xantusiidae) (type genus Cricosaura Gundlach & Peters in Peters, 1863). We propose to emend the stem of the name of the type genus of the unused Cricosaurinae Koken, 1888 from Cricosaur- to Cricosaurus-, which would result in Cricosaurusinae Koken, 1888. Reversal of precedence (Article 23.9 of the Code) is invoked for the subjective synonymy between Cricosaurini Koken, 1888, herewith treated as a nomen oblitum, and Rhacheosaurini Young, Bell & Brusatte, 2011, herewith treated as a nomen protectum.