Genus
Valid Extinct

Augustasaurus

Sander and et al 1997

Augustasaurus is an extinct genus of sauropterygians that lived during the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic in what is now North America. Only one species is known, A. hagdorni, described in 1997 from fossils discovered in the Favret Formation, Nevada, USA.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Augustasaurus
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Skull of Augustasaurus hagdorni in the Field Museum of Natural History. © Smokeybjb · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Pistosauria Unranked clade
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Augustasaurus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇺🇸 United States
1
Geological formations
Favret
1
Temporal distribution
Anisian (247–241.464 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Augustasaurus hagdorni 243 Ma
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
F. R. O'Keefe. 2001. A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Acta Zoologica Fennica 213:1-63
Bibliography (1)
P. M. Sander, O. C. Rieppel, and H. Bucher. 1997. A new pistosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and its implications for the origin of the plesiosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(3):526-533 DOI ↗