Rhaeticosaurus
Name:
Rhaeticosaurus
(Rhaetian lizard).
Phonetic: Ray-te-ko-sor-us.
Named By: Tanja Wintrich, Shoji Hayashi,
Alexandra Houssaye, Yasuhisa Nakajima & P. Martin
Sander - 2017.
Classification: Chodata, Reptilia,
Sauroptyergia, Plesiosauria.
Species: R. mertensi (type).
Diet: Piscivore?/Carnivore?
Size: Holotype roughly estimated to be about 237
centimetres long.
Known locations: Germany - Exter Formation.
Time period: Rhaetian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial skull and partial
post cranial skeleton.
Rhaeticosaurus
is a genus of plesiosaur
that lived in the seas of what is now Europe
during the late Triassic.
Further reading
- A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on
evolution of a unique body plan. - Science Advances. 3 (12):
e1701144. - Tanja Wintrich, Shoji Hayashi, Alexandra
Houssaye, Yasuhisa Nakajima & P. Martin Sander -
2017.
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