Occitanosaurus

Occitanosaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Sauropterygia
Order:	Plesiosauria
Family:	Plesiosauridae[1]
Genus:	Occitanosaurus
Species
Occitanosaurus tournemirensis (type) Sciau et al., 1990

Occitanosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic of what is now France. The type species is Occitanosaurus tournemirensis (originally "Plesiosaurus" tournemirensis), first named by Sciau et al. in 1990. Occitanosaurus was a plesiosaur similar to Elasmosaurus; fossils consist of a single but nearly complete skeleton of an animal approximately 4 meters (13 ft) long.

References

1. ^ Ketchum HF, Benson RBJ. Global interrelationships of Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses. Biological Reviews

• Bardet, Nathalie; Fernandez, Marta; Garcia-Ramos, Jose Carlos; Superbiola, Xabier Pereda; Pinuela, Laura; Ruiz-Omenaca, Jose Ignacio; and Vincent, Peggy (2008). "A juvenile plesiosaur from the Pliensbackian (Lower Jurassic) of Asturias, Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(1): 258–263.

External links

• Occitanosaurus from the Plesiosaur Directory

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