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[Palaeontology,2014,pp.1–14]
SKULLMORPHOLOGYANDPHYLOGENETIC
RELATIONSHIPSOFANEWMIDDLETRIASSIC
PLAGIOSAURIDTEMNOSPONDYLFROMGERMANY,
ANDTHEEVOLUTIONOFPLAGIOSAURIDEYES
byRAINERR.SCHOCH1,ANDREWR.MILNER2andFLORIANWITZMANN3*
1StaatlichesMuseumfur€Naturkunde,Rosenstein1,D-70191,Stuttgart,Germany;e-mail:schoch.smns@naturkundemuseum-bw.de
2DepartmentofEarthSciences,TheNaturalHistoryMuseumLondon,London,UK;e-mail:ner@nhm.ac.uk
3€
MuseumfurNaturkunde,Invalidenstrasse43,D-10115,Berlin,Germany;e-mail:florian.witzmann@mfn-berlin.de
*Correspondingauthor
Typescriptreceived25October2013;acceptedinrevisedform15January2014
Abstract:ApartialskullfromtheLowerKeuper(Middleonposteriorskulltable,withsingleprominenttuberclesris-
Triassic)ofGermanyisrecognizedasbelongingtoanewingfromridges.Phylogeneticanalysisfindsplagiosauridsto
genusandspeciesofplagiosauridtemnospondyl.Itisreadilybemonophyleticwithinabroadrangeoftemnospondyls,
identifiedbythefollowingautapomorphies:(1)extremelynestingwithinacladeofshort-skulledstereospondyls.Plagio-
largeorbitsmediallyextendedtogiveverythininterorbitalsuchusisthemostbasalplagiosaurid,andPlagiosternum
regionandcheek;(2)posteriorskulltableabbreviated,withformsthesistergrouptothenewtaxon.Thebiologicalsig-
splint-likesupratemporals,postparietalsandparietals;(3)nificanceofthelargeorbitsofplagiosauridsandtheirrela-
supraorbitallaterallinesulcusabsentonfrontal,withblindtionshipstotheeyeballsisdiscussed.Theonlytypeof
endingonparietal,andcontinuedattheanteriorma
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