Genus
Valid Extinct

Contectopalatus

Maisch and Matzke 1998

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Contectopalatus
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Figure description from the paper: "The segmented model of right lateral side of the skull of mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon fraasi (Merriam, 1910) PMO 235.393, from the Botneheia Formation, Middle Triassic of the Isfjorden area in Spitsbergen, Svalbard." References: Roberts, A.J.; Engelschiøn, V.S.; Hurum, J.H. (2022). "First three-dimensional skull of the Middle Triassic mixosaurid ichthyosaur Phalarodon fraasi from Svalbard, Norway". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 67 (1): 51–62. DOI:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00915.2021. © Aubrey Jane Roberts, Victoria Sjøholt Engelschiøn, and Jørn Harald Hurum · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Hueneosauria Unranked clade
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Mixosauridae Family
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Phalarodontinae Subfamily
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Contectopalatus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1
Geological formations
Monte San Giorgio bituminous shales
1
Temporal distribution
Anisian (247–241.464 Ma)
1
Images 2
Bibliography
Original description
M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 1998. Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part III: a crested predatory mixosaurid from the Middle Triassic of the Germanic Basin. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 209(1):105-134 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
P. M. Sander. 2000. Ichthyosauria: their diversity, distribution and phylogeny. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 74(1/2):1-35 DOI ↗