Anarosaurus

Anarosaurus is an extinct genus of pachypleurosaurs that lived in the Middle Triassic period (Anisian) and has been found in the Jena Formation and the Karlstadt Formation of Germany and the Winterswijk Quarry (Lower Muschelkalk) of The Netherlands.[1] Two species are known: A. pumilio (the type species)[2] and A. heterodontus.[3] The holotype of A. pumilio was originally housed at the Institut und Museum fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Georg-August-Universitat, Gottingen, but can no longer be located today because it was lost or destroyed during World War II.[4]

Anarosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic, Anisian
Anarosaurus heterodontus humeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: †Sauropterygia
Order: †Nothosauroidea
Family: †Pachypleurosauridae
Genus: †Anarosaurus
Dames, 1890
Species
  • †A. pumilio Dames, 1890 (type)
  • †A. heterodontus Rieppel & Kebang, 1995

See also
  • List of plesiosaurs

References
  1. Klein, N. (2009). "Skull morphology of Anarosaurus heterodontus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia: Pachypleurosauria) from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin (Winterswijk, the Netherlands)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 29 (3): 665. doi:10.1671/039.029.0327.
  2. Dames, W. (1890) Anarosaurus pumilio nov. gen. nov. sp. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 42:74-85.
  3. O. Rieppel and K. Lin. (1995) Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32)1-44
  4. Kuhn O. (1971) , Die Saurier der deutschen Trias [Reptiles of the German Triassic], 1-105


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