Cymatosaurus

Cymatosaurus
Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic, 247.5–237 Ma
Cymatosaurus and pachypleurosaur humeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Clade: †Pistosauroidea
Family: †Cymatosauridae
Genus: †Cymatosaurus
Fritsch, 1894
Species
  • †C. fridericianus Fritsch, 1894 (type)
  • †C. latifrons Gürich, 1884
  • †C. multidentatus (von Huene, 1958)
  • †C. minor Rieppel & Wernburg, 1998
  • †C. erikae Maisch, 2014[1]

Cymatosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid or nothosauriform sauropterygian. It is known to have been alive from the Early Triassic to the Middle Triassic period (latest Olenekian to Anisian stages) of Germany and they seem to originate from the Netherlands.[2][3] It was small to medium-sized for an eosauropterygian, measuring 1–1.2 metres (3.3–3.9 ft) long.[3]

  1. ^ Michael W. Maisch (2014). "A well preserved skull of Cymatosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the uppermost Buntsandstein (Middle Triassic) of Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (2): 213–224. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0407.
  2. ^ Klein, N. (2010). Farke, Andrew Allen (ed.). "Long Bone Histology of Sauropterygia from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin Provides Unexpected Implications for Phylogeny". PLOS ONE. 5 (7): e11613. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...511613K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011613. PMC 2908119. PMID 20657768.
  3. ^ a b Sander, P.M.; Klein, N.; Albers, P.C.H.; Bickelmann, C.; Winkelhorst, H. (2014). "Postcranial morphology of a basal Pistosauroidea (Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk of Winterswijk, The Netherlands". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 88 (1): 55–71. Bibcode:2014PalZ...88...55S. doi:10.1007/s12542-013-0181-5. S2CID 129760276.