Palaeopleurosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Palaeopleurosaurus"


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fossil_range = Early Jurassic
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Sphenodontia
familia = Pleurosauridae
genus = "Palaeopleurosaurus"
binomial = "Palaeopleurosaurus posidoniae"

"Palaeopleurosaurus" is an extinct genus of diapsid reptile belonging to the Order Sphenodontia.

"Palaeoleurosaurus" fossils were discovered in Bavaria, Germany from Toarcian (Early Jurassic) deposits. It is the one of the few known aquatic sphenodontians.

References

*"In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods" by Nicholas C. Fraser and Hans-Dieter Sues