Cymatosaurus minor Rieppel and Wernburg 1998 (diapsid)

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia

Full reference: O. Rieppel and R. Wernburg. 1998. A new species of the sauropterygian Cymatosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of Thuringia, Germany. Palaeontology 41(4):575-589

Belongs to Cymatosaurus according to P. M. Sander et al. 2014

See also Rieppel and Wernburg 1998

Sister taxa: Cymatosaurus erikae, Cymatosaurus erythreus, Cymatosaurus fridericianus, Cymatosaurus gracilis, Cymatosaurus latifrons, Cymatosaurus multidentatus, Proneusticosaurus madelungi, Proneusticosaurus silesiacus

Type specimen: NHMS-GT 21, a partial skull. Its type locality is Ilm Valley, near Hetschburg, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in the Jena Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ilm Valley, near Hetschburg

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