| Corosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic,
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| Corosaurus (12) and other Early Triassic marine predators | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Clade: | †Pistosauroidea |
| Family: | †Corosauridae Kuhn, 1961 |
| Genus: | †Corosaurus Case, 1936 |
| Species: | †C. alcovensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Corosaurus alcovensis Case, 1936
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Corosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid known from Wyoming of the United States.[1][2] The holotype measured about 1.65 m (5.4 ft) long, while larger specimens would have belonged to individuals measuring more than 4 m (13 ft) long.[3]
- ^ Ermine Cowles Case (1936). "A nothosaur from the Triassic of Wyoming". University of Michigan Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology. 5 (1): 1–36.
- ^ Olivier Rieppel (1998). "Corosaurus alcovensis Case and the phylogenetic interrelationships of Triassic stem-group Sauropterygia". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124 (1): 1–41. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb00568.x.
- ^ Scheyer, Torsten M.; Romano, Carlo; Jenks, Jim; Bucher, Hugo (19 March 2014). "Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective". PLOS ONE. 9 (3): e88987. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...988987S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088987. PMC 3960099. PMID 24647136.