Odoiporosaurus
| Odoiporosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian | |
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| Fossil in Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Nothosauroidea |
| Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
| Genus: | †Odoiporosaurus Renesto et al., 2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Odoiporosaurus teruzzii Renesto et al., 2014 | |
Skull
Odoiporosaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaur known from the Middle Triassic (middle Anisian stage) Besano Formation (Grenzbitumenzone) of northern Italy. It contains a single species, Odoiporosaurus teruzzii. Odoiporosaurus is the sister taxon of the group formed by Serpianosaurus and Neusticosaurus, and together with the older and more primitive Dactylosaurus plus Anarosaurus clade, they form a monophyletic group of European pachypleurosaurids.[1]
References
- ↑ Renesto, S.; Binelli, G.; Hagdorn, H. (2014). "A new pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Northern Italy". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 271 (2): 151. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0382.
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