Gengasaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gengasaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Jurassic. The type and only species, Gengasaurus nicosiai, was named in 2017, after the locality of Genga, Marche.[1] It lived in Italy about 152 million years ago.[2]
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Gengasaurus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
Subfamily: | †Ophthalmosaurinae |
Genus: | †Gengasaurus Parapella et al., 2017 |
Species: | †G. nicosiai |
Binomial name | |
†Gengasaurus nicosiai Parapella et al., 2017 | |
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