Shokawa

Shokawa

Taxobox
name = "Shokawa"
fossil_range = Early Cretaceous


image_width=250px
image_caption="Shokawa ikoi"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Sauropsida
ordo = Choristodera
familia = Hyphalosauridae
genus = "Shokawa"
genus_authority = Evans & Manabe, 1998
species = "Shokawa ikoi"

"Shokawa ikoi", named after the village of Shokawa, located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan, was a 1.8 m long choristoderan diapsid reptile closely resembling and closely related to the smaller choristoderan, "Hyphalosaurus". It lived during the Lower Cretaceous in what is now Japan.

As with "Hyphalosaurus", "S. ikoi" had an extremely long, thin neck with a small head. The mouth was filled with long teeth used to snare small fish.

External links

*The dentary of a Choristodere (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Okurodani Formation, Tetori Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Japan [http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/article/200317/000020031703A0489383.php]



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