Proneusticosaurus silesiacus Volz 1902 (diapsid)

Reptilia - Eosauropterygia

Belongs to Proneusticosaurus according to O. Kuhn 1971

See also Surmik 2016

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

Type specimen: 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: planktonic suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Gogoliner Schichten, Muschelkalk, Chorzow

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