Isfjordosaurus
Isfjordosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyopterygian marine reptile that lived during the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found on the island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago off the northern coast of Norway. It was formally described by Ryosuke Motani in 1999[1] and contains the species Isfjordosaurus minor.
| Isfjordosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Ichthyopterygia |
| Genus: | †Isfjordosaurus Motani, 1999 |
| Type species | |
| †Isfjordosaurus minor (Wiman, 1910) | |
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References
- Motani, Ryosuke (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (3): 473–496. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011160. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-15.
External links
- Isfjordosaurus at www.biolib.cz.
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