Pontosaurus

Pontosaurus Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pontosaurus kornhuberi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	† Dolichosauridae
Genus:	† Pontosaurus Gorjanovic-Kramberger, 1892
Species
P. kornhuberiCaldwell, 2006 [1] P. lesinensis(Kornhuber, 1873 [originally Hydrosaurus lesinensis]) (type)

Head of Pontosaurus kornhuberi

Pontosaurus is a now extinct genus of pythonomorph from the Late Cretaceous period. The type species, P. lesinensis, is from Hvar in Croatia. It was originally named Hydrosaurus lesinensis and placed in the genus Hydrosaurus Wagler, 1830, ^[2] which is preoccupied by the agamid genus Hydrosaurus Kaup, 1828, and now considered a synonym of Varanus , but later placed in a separate genus Pontosaurus. A second species, P. kornhuberi, is known from the Sannine Formation in Lebanon. ^[3]

See also

• Paleontology portal

• List of mosasaurs

References

1. Michael W. Caldwell (2006). "A new species of Pontosaurus (Squamata, Pythonomorpha) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lebanon and a phylogenetic analysis of Pythonomorpha". Memorie della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano. 34: 1–42.
2. Kornhuber, A.G. (1873). "Über einen neuen fossilen Saurier aus Lesina". Abhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt. 5 (4): 75–90.
3. Campbell Mekarski, Michelle; Pierce, Stephanie E.; Caldwell, Michael W. (2019-09-24). "Spatiotemporal Distributions of Non-ophidian Ophidiomorphs, With Implications for Their Origin, Radiation, and Extinction". Frontiers in Earth Science. 7: 245. Bibcode:2019FrEaS...7..245M. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00245 . ISSN   2296-6463.

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