Nectosaurus

Nectosaurus Temporal range: Late Triassic
Thalattosaurus alexandrae and Nectosaurus halinus of Late Triassic California
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Order:	Thalattosauria
Genus:	Nectosaurus
Species:	N. halinus
Binomial name
Nectosaurus halinus

Nectosaurus is a genus of marine diapsid reptile which lived during the Late Triassic of what is now California. The type species is N. halinus, described by John C. Merriam in 1905. A 2002 analysis of Nectosaurus classifies it as a thalattosaurian, one of a group of marine reptiles which lived during the Triassic.^[1]

References

1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J. (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology 363: 1-560.

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