Pachygonosaurus

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Pachygonosaurus
Temporal range: Ladinian,
242–237 Ma
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Genus: Pachygonosaurus
von Huene, 1916
Type species
Pachygonosaurus robustus
Maisch and Matzke, 1997

Pachygonosaurus (meaning "wide angled [vertebrae] lizard")[1] is a genus of ichthyosaur from Upper Silesia, Poland (then part of the German Empire). It was described in 1916 by Friedrich von Huene and it has one single species, Pachygonosaurus robustus, based solely on the holotype, composed of two vertebral centra.[2] Nowadays, Pachygonosaurus is considered a nomen dubium.[3]

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