†Quasianosteosaurus vikinghoegdai Maisch and Matzke 2003 (ichthyosaur)
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Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Quasianosteosauridae
Full reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2003. Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part XII. A new Early Triassic ichthyosaur genus from Spitzbergen. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 229(3):317-338
Belongs to Quasianosteosaurus according to M. W. Maisch 2010
See also Maisch and Matzke 2003
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MNHN Nr. SVT 331, a partial skull. Its type locality is 33m Above the Fish Horizon, Mt. Viking, which is in a Spathian marine siliciclastic in the Sticky Keep Formation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at 33m Above the Fish Horizon, Mt. Viking
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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