 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (September 2022) |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Genus: | †Auroroborealia Zverkov et al., 2021 |
| Species: | †A. incognita
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| †Auroroborealia incognita Zverkov et al. 2021
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Auroroborealia is a small bodied euichthyosaurian ichthyosaur discovered on the New Siberian Islands in the Russian Arctic. The animal was likely similar in size to Hudsonelpidia, around 1 to 1.5 meters in length. Although the fragmentary nature doesn't allow to determine its exact ontogenetic state, other remains from the area suggest that it was simply a small-bodied taxon.[1] It contains a single species, Auroroborealia incognita.
- ^ Zverkov, N.G.; Grivoriev, D.V.; Wolnievicz, A.S.; Konstantinov, A.G.; Sobolev, E.S. (2021). "Ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian) of the New Siberian Islands, Russian Arctic, and their implications for the evolution of the ichthyosaurian basicranium and vertebral column". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 113: 51–74. doi:10.1017/S1755691021000372.