Nothosauridae

Nothosauridae Temporal range: Triassic[1]
Nothosaurus raabi fossil
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Superorder:	†Sauropterygia
Order:	†Nothosauroidea
Suborder:	†Nothosauria
Family:	†Nothosauridae Seeley, 1889
Genera
Anomosaurus † Huene, 1902[2] Ceresiosaurus † Peyer, 1931[3] Chinchenia † Young, 1965[4] Kwangsisaurus † Young, 1959[5] Lariosaurus † Curioni, 1847[6] Metanothosaurus † Yabe & Shikama, 1948[7] Nothosaurus † (type) Munster, 1834[8] Proneusticosaurus † Volz, 1902[9] Sanchiaosaurus † Young, 1965[10]

Nothosauridae was a family of diapsid reptiles from the Triassic time period of China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, and northern Africa.^[1][11]

Ecology

An impression of Ceresiosaurus eating a small aquatic animal

Nothosaurs were carnivorous reptiles.

Classification

Nothosauridae was named a sub - group of Nothosauroidea by C. C. Young in 1965.^[1]

Relatives

• Anarosaurus
• Dactylosaurus
• Hanosaurus
• Keichousaurus
• Neusticosaurus
• Pachypleurosaurus
• Serpianosaurus

See also

• Nothosauria
• Nothosaurus
• Ceresiosaurus
• Chinchenia
• Pachypleurosaur

References