Sauropterygia was a diverse clade of secondary aquatic reptiles, which represented one of the most important vertebrate groups in the shallow marine communities during the Triassic. However, despite the long history of collection and examination of sauropterygian remains, previous studies have indicated that the fossil record of this group is incomplete, making the understanding of their palaeobiogeographic relations difficult. Here we describe new sauropterygian remains from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) Templomhegy Dolomite Member (Villány, southern Hungary), which were unearthed during systematic fieldwork of previous years. Among several non-diagnostic sauropterygian remains, this material contains isolated bones belonging to Nothosaurus sp., Simosauridae indet. and a small-sized nothosaurid. The known faunal composition from Villány is similar to what was described from the Middle Triassic of the Germanic Basin and Bihor Mountains (northwestern Romania). Besides isolated elements, a probably associated skeleton of a small-sized eosauropterygian specimen of unknown affinities is also reported here. This locality widens our knowledge on Triassic sauropterygian distribution and provides new information about the previously not well-known Middle Triassic vertebrate fauna of the one-time southern Eurasian shelf region.

食翅目是继发性水生爬行动物的多样化分支，代表了三叠纪期间浅海生物群落中最重要的脊椎动物群之一。然而，尽管有很长的蜥脚类动物遗体的收集和检查历史，但先前的研究表明该组的化石记录是不完整的，因此很难了解它们的古生物地理关系。在这里，我们描述了来自中三叠纪（拉丁尼亚）的Templomhegy白云岩成员（匈牙利南部的维拉尼）的新的翼龙目遗骸，这些遗骸是在前几年的系统野外工作中发现的。在一些无法诊断的蜥脚类动物遗骸中，这种材料包含了属于Nothosaurus的孤立骨骼sp。，Simosauridae indet。和一个小型的nothosaurid。Villány的已知动物区系组成与日耳曼盆地中部三叠纪和Bihor山（罗马尼亚西北部）所描述的相似。除了孤立的元素，这里还报告了一个未知亲缘关系的小型尾翼龙标本的可能相关的骨骼。这个地方拓宽了我们对三叠纪蜥脚类动物分布的认识，并提供了有关一次未知的南部欧亚大陆架地区以前不为人所知的中三叠纪脊椎动物的动物群的新信息。