Aphrosaurus

Taxobox
name = "Aphrosaurus"
fossil_range = Late Cretaceous


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
superordo = Sauropterygia
unranked = Eusauropterygia
ordo = Plesiosauria
familia = Elasmosauridae
genus = "Aphrosaurus"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* "Aphrosaurus furlongi" (type) Welles

"Aphrosaurus" (meaning "sea-foam lizard") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Mesozoic. The type species is "Aphrosaurus furlongi", named by Welles in 1943.

References

* Carroll, R.L. (1988). "Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution". W.H. Freeman and Company

External links

* [http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=checkTaxonInfo&taxon_no=36456&is_real_user=0 "Aphrosaurus"] in the Paleobiology Database
* [http://www.plesiosaur.com/database/genusIndividual.php?i=43 "Aphrosaurus"] in the Plesiosaur Site