Amotosaurus

Amotosaurus; Temporal range: Middle Triassic, 245–241 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Protorosauria
Family:	†Tanystropheidae
Genus:	†Amotosaurus; Fraser & Rieppel, 2006
Type species
	<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>†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]

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