Meyerasaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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The holotype in the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Plesiosauria |
Family: | †Rhomaleosauridae |
Genus: | †Meyerasaurus Smith & Vincent, 2010 |
Species: | †M. victor
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Binomial name | |
†Meyerasaurus victor (Fraas, 1910 [originally Thaumatosaurus])
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Meyerasaurus is an extinct genus of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur known from the Early Jurassic of Holzmaden, Baden-Württemberg in southwestern Germany.[1]