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Name:
Claudiosaurus germaini
Common name:
lizard, reptile
Family / Genus / Species / Binom / Author:
Claudiosauridae → Claudiosaurus → germaini → Claudiosaurus germaini → Carroll, 1981
Location:
Ranohira / Madagascar
Geological Age:
Permian [p], Upper Permian, Sankamena Formation / approx. 260 million years
Size of the item:
Width: 19 cm
Thickness: 4,1 cm
Length: 24,2 cm
Size of the fossil:
Object Length: 22,5 cm
Weight:
2763 Gram
Claudiosaurus germaini was a reptile up to 60 cm long with a small head, long neck and tail. It lived on the shores of lakes or sheltered sea inlets along two rift valleys in what is now Madagascar in the late Permian—just prior to the events that killed most life on Earth at the end of the Paleozoic Era. The most puzzling feature is the skull. As with snakes, almost nothing seems to hold the skull together. The individual parts were only weakly bound and possibly not even completely ossified, which is why the skull was only preserved in exceptional cases.
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HIERARCHY | OBJECT 1 |
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Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Reptilia |
Family | Claudiosauridae |
Genus | Claudiosaurus |
Species | germaini |
Binom | Claudiosaurus germaini |
Author | Carroll, 1981 |
Research on other websites (External linking):
www.fossiilid.info 🔗 - Taxonomic search on the website "Fossiilid"
www.mineralienatlas.de 🔗 - Taxonomic search on the website "Mineralienatlas - Fossilienatlas"
www.paleobiodb.org.de 🔗 - Taxonomic search for Claudiosaurus germaini on the website "Die Paläobiologie-Datenbank"
www.wikipedia.de 🔗 - Taxonomic search for Claudiosaurus germaini on the website "Wikipedia"
This product was added to our catalog on Thursday, October 6, 2022.