Eurysaurus raincourti
Sign in to saveEurysaurus (meaning "wide lizard") is an extinct genus of plesiosaur, originally classed as a nothosaur, from the Early Jurassic of Echenoz-la-Meline, France, named in 1878. The type material, consisting of a cranium, teeth and five vertebrae, is now lost. The type species is E. raincourti, and a second species, E. schafferi, was named in 1924 but it has since been absorbed into the unrelated genus Germanosaurus.
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- Parent taxon
- Sauropterygia
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- taxon name
- Eurysaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 195000000-
- end time
- 185000000-
- location of discovery
- Échenoz-la-Méline
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L'eurisauro (Eurysaurus raincourti) è un rettile marino estinto, appartenente ai plesiosauri. Visse nel Giurassico inferiore (195-185 milioni di anni fa) e i suoi resti fossili sono stati ritrovati in Francia. È attualmente considerato di dubbia identità.
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