Cymatosaurus
| Cymatosaurus Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic, 247.5–237 Ma | |
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| Cymatosaurus and pachypleurosaur humeri | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Pistosauroidea |
| Family: | †Cymatosauridae |
| Genus: | †Cymatosaurus Fritsch, 1894 |
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Cymatosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid or nothosauriform sauropterygian. It is known from Early Triassic to the Middle Triassic period (latest Olenekian to Anisian stages) of Germany.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ Michael W. Maisch (2014). "A well preserved skull of Cymatosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the uppermost Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 272 (2): 213–224. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0407.
- ↑ Klein, N. (2010). Farke, Andrew Allen, ed. "Long Bone Histology of Sauropterygia from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin Provides Unexpected Implications for Phylogeny". PLoS ONE 5 (7): e11613. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011613. PMC 2908119. PMID 20657768.
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