| Amotosaurus Temporal range: Anisian,
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| Holotype of Amotosaurus rotfeldensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauromorpha |
| Family: | †Tanystropheidae |
| Genus: | †Amotosaurus Fraser & Rieppel, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| †Amotosaurus rotfeldensis Fraser & Rieppel, 2006
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Amotosaurus is an extinct genus of tanystropheid protorosaur from the earliest Middle Triassic (early Anisian stage) of Black Forest, southwestern Germany. Amotosaurus is known from the holotype SMNS 50830, a partial skeleton including left maxilla with teeth, cervical series, pelvic girdle and other postcranial remains. Other specimens include SMNS 90600-90601, SMNS 50691, SMNS 54783a-b and SMNS 54810. It was first described and named by Nicholas C. Fraser and Olivier Rieppel in 2006 and the type species is Amotosaurus rotfeldensis.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Fraser, N. C.; Rieppel, O. (2006). "A new protorosaur (Diapsida) from the Upper Buntsandstein of the Black Forest, Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 866. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[866:ANPDFT]2.0.CO;2.
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