Neusticosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neusticosaurus (sometimes misspelled Neuticosaurus) ("swimming lizard"), is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the pachypleurosaurs, from Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Neusticosaurus was one of the smallest nothosaurs and probably fed on small fish.
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Neusticosaurus pusillus | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
Genus: | †Neusticosaurus Seeley, 1882 |
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