Clarazia

Clarazia
Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
C. schinzi fossil at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Thalattosauria
Superfamily: †Thalattosauroidea
Genus: †Clarazia
Peyer, 1936
Type species
Clarazia schinzi
Peyer, 1936

Clarazia is an extinct genus of thalattosaur from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland. It is represented by a single type species, Clarazia schinzi, which was named in 1936.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Peyer, Bernhard (1936). "Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen. X. Clarazia schinzi nov. gen. nov. spec". Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Gesellschaft (57): 1–61.
  2. ^ Rieppel, Olivier (1987). "Clarazia and Hescheleria: a re-investigation of two problematical reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland)". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. A195 (4–6): 101–129.

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