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.
| Neusticosaurus Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
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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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References
edit- ^ 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". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 141 (1): 12. Bibcode:2022SwJP..141...12K. doi:10.1186/s13358-022-00254-2. ISSN 1664-2384. PMC 9276568. PMID 35844249.
- 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.
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