Isfjordosaurus
Isfjordosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyopterygian marine reptile that lived during the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found on the island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago off the northern coast of Norway. It was formally described by Ryosuke Motani in 1999[1] and contains the species Isfjordosaurus minor.
| Isfjordosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Ichthyopterygia |
| Genus: | †Isfjordosaurus Motani, 1999 |
| Type species | |
| †Isfjordosaurus minor Motani, 1999 | |
See also
- List of ichthyosaurs
- Timeline of ichthyosaur research
References
- Motani, Ryosuke, 1999. Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia. Archived 2010-07-15 at the Wayback Machine Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
External links
- Isfjordosaurus at www.biolib.cz.
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