Anarosaurus
| Anarosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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| Anarosaurus heterodontus humeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Nothosauroidea |
| Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
| Genus: | †Anarosaurus Dames, 1890 |
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Anarosaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurs that lived in the Middle Triassic period (Anisian) and has been found in the Jena Formation and the of Germany and the Winterswijk Quarry (Lower Muschelkalk) of The Netherlands.[1] Two species are known: A. pumilio (the type species)[2] and A. heterodontus.[3] The holotype of A. pumilio was originally housed at the , Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, but can no longer be located today because it was lost or destroyed during World War II.[4]
See also[]
- List of plesiosaurs
References[]
- ^ Klein, N. (2009). "Skull morphology of Anarosaurus heterodontus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia: Pachypleurosauria) from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin (Winterswijk, the Netherlands)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (3): 665–676. doi:10.1671/039.029.0327. S2CID 86204928.
- ^ Dames, W. (1890) Anarosaurus pumilio nov. gen. nov. sp. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 42:74-85.
- ^ O. Rieppel and K. Lin. (1995) Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32)1-44
- ^ Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105
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