Nectosaurus
| Nectosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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| Thalattosaurus alexandrae and Nectosaurus halius of Late Triassic California | |
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| Genus: | Nectosaurus
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| Species: | N. halius
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| Nectosaurus halius Merriam 1905
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Nectosaurus is a genus of marine diapsid reptile which lived during the Late Triassic of what is now California. The type species is N. halius, described by John C. Merriam in 1905. A 2002 analysis of Nectosaurus classifies it as a thalattosaurian, one of a group of marine reptiles which lived during the Triassic.[1]
References
- ^ Sepkoski, J.J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.
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