†Germanosaurus schafferi Arthaber 1924 (diapsid)
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Reptilia - Eosauropterygia - Nothosauridae
Alternative combinations: Cymatosaurus (Germanosaurus) schafferi, Cymatosaurus schafferi, Eurysaurus schafferi
Belongs to Germanosaurus according to O. Rieppel 1997
See also Kuhn 1971
Sister taxon: Germanosaurus latissimus
Type specimen: NHMW uncatalogued, a skull. Its type locality is Gogoliner Schichten, Muschelkalk, Chorzow, which is in an Anisian marginal marine mixed carbonate-siliciclastic in the Wellenkalk Formation of Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Gogoliner Schichten, Muschelkalk, Chorzow
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