Cymatosaurus

Cymatosaurus; Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic, 247.5–237 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Cymatosaurus and pachypleurosaur humeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	†Sauropterygia
Clade:	†Pistosauroidea
Family:	†Cymatosauridae
Genus:	†Cymatosaurus; Fritsch, 1894
Species
	†C. fridericianus Fritsch, 1894 (type); †C. latifrons Gürich, 1884; †C. multidentatus (von Huene, 1958); †C. minor Rieppel & Wernburg, 1998; †C. erikae Maisch, 2014;

Cymatosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid or nothosauriform sauropterygian. It is known from Early Triassic to the Middle Triassic period (latest Olenekian to Anisian stages) of Germany.^[2]

References

^ Michael W. Maisch (2014). "A well preserved skull of Cymatosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the uppermost Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (2): 213–224. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0407.
^ Klein, N. (2010). Farke, Andrew Allen (ed.). "Long Bone Histology of Sauropterygia from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin Provides Unexpected Implications for Phylogeny". PLoS ONE. 5 (7): e11613. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011613. PMC 2908119. PMID 20657768.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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