In Depth
Not a lot is known about Anarosaurus due to the very fragmentary remains that are all we currently have. What can be ascertained from the remains however is that Anarosaurus was a pachypleurosaur, small reptiles that in appearance looked somewhere between terrestrial lizards and fully aquatic plesiosaurs. With this in mind Anarosaurus would have been a coastal animal that probably fed in the water, but returned to land to rest.
Further Reading
– Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. – Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32)1-44. – O. Rieppel & K. Lin – 1995. – Skull morphology of Anarosaurus heterodontus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia: Pachypleurosauria) from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin (Winterswijk, the Netherlands). – Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (3): 665. – N. Klein – 2009.
