Pachygonosaurus

Pachygonosaurus is a genus of ichthyosaur from Upper Silesia, Poland (then part of the German Empire). It was described in 1916 by Friedrich von Huene and it has one single species, Pachygonosaurus robustus.[1] Nowadays, Pachygonosaurus is considered a nomen dubium.[2]

Pachygonosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Genus: Pachygonosaurus
von Huene, 1916
Type species
Pachygonosaurus robustus
von Huene, 1916

See also

References

  1. von Huene 1916, pp. 39–40.
  2. Surmik & Brachaniec 2013, p. 93.

Cited bibliography

  • von Huene, Friedrich (1916). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Ichthyosaurier im deutschen Muschelkalk". Palaeontographica (in German). Tübingen. 62: 1–68.
  • Surmik, Dawid; Brachaniec, Tomasz (2013). "The large superpredators' teeth from Middle Triassic of Poland". Contemporary Trends in Geoscience. 2 (1): 91–94. doi:10.2478/ctg-2014-0013.


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