Isfjordosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyopterygian marine reptile that lived during the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found on the island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard archipelago off the northern coast of Norway. It was formally described by Ryosuke Motani in 1999[1] and contains the species Isfjordosaurus minor.
| Isfjordosaurus Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Ichthyopterygia |
| Genus: | †Isfjordosaurus Motani, 1999 |
| Type species | |
| †Isfjordosaurus minor (Wiman, 1910)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Motani, Ryosuke (1999). "Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (3): 473–496. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011160. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-15.
External links
edit- Isfjordosaurus at www.biolib.cz.
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