Nothosauridae | |
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Nothosaurus mirabilis fossil | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Order: | †Nothosauroidea |
Suborder: | †Nothosauria |
Family: | †Nothosauridae Seeley, 1889 |
Genera[2] | |
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Nothosauridae are an extinct family of carnivorous aquatic sauropterygian reptiles from the Triassic time period of China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, and northern Africa.[1][3]
Rieppel1998
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).