Biology:Neusticosaurus
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Short description: Extinct genus of reptiles
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| Neusticosaurus pusillus | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| 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 pachypleurosaurs, from Italy, Switzerland and Germany . Neusticosaurus was one of the smallest nothosaurs and probably fed on small fish.
References
- ↑ Cornalia, E. (1854). "Notizie zoologiche sul Pachypleura edwardsii Cor. Nuovo sauro acrodonte degli strati triasici di Lombardia". Giornale dell'istituto Lombardo di Scienze 6: 1–46.
- ↑ Klein, Nicole; Furrer, Heinz; Ehrbar, Iris; Torres Ladeira, Marta; Richter, Henning; Scheyer, Torsten M. (13 July 2022). "A new pachypleurosaur from the Early Ladinian Prosanto Formation in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland" (in en). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141 (1): 12. doi:10.1186/s13358-022-00254-2. ISSN 1664-2384. PMID 35844249. Bibcode: 2022SwJP..141...12K.
- 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1186209 entry
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