Thalattosaurus
| Thalattosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
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| Genus: | Thalattosaurus Merriam, 1904
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Thalattosaurus is an extinct genus of marine reptile in the family Thalattosauridae that lived during the Triassic period. It includes two known species.
Thalattosaurus was a shellfish-eating reptile around 2 meters (7 ft) in length.
Taxonomy
Thalattosaurus was originally described with the type species T. alexandrae. In 1993, Nicholls and Brinkman described T. borealis from fossils found at Wapiti Lake, British Columbia.
References
Abstract of the paper describing T. borealis
BioLib entry for Thalattosaurus
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