| Odoiporosaurus | |
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| Fossil in Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Suborder: | †Pachypleurosauria |
| Family: | †Pachypleurosauridae |
| Genus: | †Odoiporosaurus Renestoet al.,2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Odoiporosaurus teruzzii Renestoet al., 2014 | |
Odoiporosaurus is anextinctgenus ofpachypleurosaur known from theMiddle Triassic (middleAnisian stage)Besano Formation (Grenzbitumenzone) of northernItaly. It contains asingle species,Odoiporosaurus teruzzii.Odoiporosaurus is thesister taxon of the group formed bySerpianosaurus andNeusticosaurus, and together with the older and more primitiveDactylosaurus plusAnarosaurusclade, they form amonophyletic group of European pachypleurosaurids.[1]
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