Askeptosaurus
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Askeptosaurus is an extinct genus of askeptosauroid, a marine reptile from the extinct order Thalattosauria. Askeptosaurus is known from several well-preserved fossils found in Middle Triassic marine strata in what is now Italy and Switzerland.[1]
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Askeptosaurus | |
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A cast of specimen MSNM V456 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Thalattosauria |
Family: | †Askeptosauridae |
Genus: | †Askeptosaurus Nopcsa, 1925 |
Species: | †A. italicus |
Binomial name | |
†Askeptosaurus italicus Nopcsa, 1925 | |
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