- Nordenosaurus
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Nordenosaurus
Temporal range: Late MioceneScientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Sauropsida Infraclass: Archosauromorpha Superorder: Crocodylomorpha Order: Crocodilia Superfamily: Alligatoroidea Genus: Nordenosaurus
Holman, 1973Species - N. magnus Holman, 1973
Nordenosaurus is an extinct genus of alligatoroid. When first named in 1973 the genus was thought to be a squamate and was assigned to the family Xenosauridae.[1] Fossils have been found from the Norden Bridge locality of the lower Valentine Formation in Brown County, Nebraska, thought to date back to the late Miocene.[2] The specific name of the type species, N. magnus, alludes to its extremely large size in comparison to other xenosaurids known at the time. Nordenosaurus was thought to have had an arboreal lifestyle before its reclassification.[3]
References
- ^ Holman, J. A. (1973). "New amphibians and reptiles from the Norden Bridge fauna (Upper Miocene) of Nebraska". Michigan Academician 6: 149–163.
- ^ Holman, J. A. (1976). "A new Peltosaurus (Reptilia, Sauria, Anguidae) from the Upper Miocene of Nebraska". Journal of Herpetology 10 (1): 41–44. doi:10.2307/1562926. JSTOR 1562926.
- ^ Holman, J. A. (1976). "The herpetofauna of the Lower Valentine Formation, North-Central Nebraska". Herpetologica 32 (3): 262–268.
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