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Portunatasaurus ("Dugi Otok lizard") is a genus of mosasauroid squamate that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Croatia. It contains a single species, P. krambergeri, recovered from the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform.[1] It was a relatively small reptile, reaching 1 m (3.3 ft) in length.[1]
| Portunatasaurus Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Genus: | †Portunatasaurus Mekarski et al., 2019[1] |
| Species: | †P. krambergeri
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| †Portunatasaurus krambergeri Mekarski et al., 2019[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b c d Mekarski, Michelle C.; Japundžić, Dražen; Krizmanić, Katarina; Caldwell, Michael W. (May 2019). "Description of a new basal mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous of Croatia, with comments on the evolution of the mosasauroid forelimb". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39: e1577872. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1577872.
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