Neusticosaurus
Neusticosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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Neusticosaurus pusillus | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Nothosauroidea |
Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
Genus: | †Neusticosaurus Seeley, 1882 |
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Neusticosaurus (sometimes misspelled Neuticosaurus) ("swimming lizard"), is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the nothosaur order, from Italy, Switzerland and Germany. At 18 cm (8 in) long, it was one of the smallest nothosaurs. Neusticosaurus probably fed on small fish.
References[]
- Seeley, H.G. (1882). On Neusticosaurus pusillus (Fraas), an amphibious reptile having affinities with the terrestrial Nothosauria and with the marine Plesiosauria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 38:350–366.
Categories:
- Nothosaurs
- Triassic sauropterygians
- Middle Triassic reptiles of Europe
- Taxa named by Harry Seeley
- Fossil taxa described in 1882
- Sauropterygian genera
- Triassic reptile stubs