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Nothosaurs (superfamily Nothosauroidea) were Tri****ic
marine sauropterygian reptiles. They
averaged about 3
metres (10 ft) in length, with a long body...
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North Africa and
Europe to China. It is the best
known member of the
nothosaur order.
Nothosaurus was a semi-oceanic
animal which probably had a lifestyle...
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Dactylosaurus is a
genus of
nothosaur in the
family Pachypleurosauridae.
Along with Anarosaurus,
Dactylosaurus was one of the
earliest known pachypleurosaurs...
- pterosaurs.
Dinosaurs also
arise from
bipedal archosaurs.
Ichthyosaurs and
nothosaurs (a
group of sauropterygians)
dominate large marine fauna.
Cynodonts become...
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measuring up to 80 cm (2.6 ft) long, it was one of the
smallest known nothosaurs.
First discovered at
Perledo on the Lake Como in 1830, it was
named in...
- that are
roughly 230
million years old. It is
usually classified as a
nothosaur, but has also been
considered a
pachypleurosaur or a more
primitive form...
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These included the Sauropterygia,
which featured pachypleurosaurs and
nothosaurs (both
common during the
Middle Tri****ic,
especially in the
Tethys region)...
- "Enaliosauria", a
classification now
cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs,
nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles,
thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most marine...
- recovered, and new
aquatic reptiles evolved, such as
ichthyosaurs and
nothosaurs. On land, pine
forests flourished, as did
groups of
insects such as mosquitoes...
- Camp
discovered that the name had
already been ****igned to a type of
nothosaur.
Unlike other mosasaurids,
Plotosaurus possesses a
morphology converging...
