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Cymatosaurus

Cymatosaurus
Temporal range: Early-Middle Triassic, 247.5–237 Ma
Cymatosaurus and pachypleurosaur humeri.png
Cymatosaurus and pachypleurosaur humeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Clade: Pistosauroidea
Family: Cymatosauridae
Genus: Cymatosaurus
Fritsch, 1894
Species
  • C. fridericianus Fritsch, 1894 (type)
  • C. latifrons Gürich, 1884
  • C. multidentatus (von Huene, 1958)
  • C. minor Rieppel & Wernburg, 1998
  • C. erikae Maisch, 2014

Cymatosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid or nothosauriform sauropterygian. It is known from Early Triassic to the Middle Triassic period (latest Olenekian to Anisian stages) of Germany.


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