Iserosaurus
| Iserosaurus Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Testudines |
| Suborder: | Cryptodira |
| Family: | †Protostegidae |
| Genus: | †Iserosaurus |
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| †Iserosaurus littoralis Fritsch, 1905
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Iserosaurus is an extinct genus of sea turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Czech Republic.
Taxonomy
[edit]Iserosaurus was originally described as a new taxon of mosasauroid by Fritsch (1905) on the basis of a disarticulated skeleton from Turonian-age chalk deposits in Bohemia, Czech Republic.[1][2] However, Persson (1963) tentatively listed it as a dubious plesiosaur in his overview of plesiosaur classification.[3] Karl (2002) recognized Iserosaurus as being a protostegid turtle and assigned it to cf. Archelon.[4] Kear et al. (2013) agreed with Karl (2002) that Iserosaurus is a marine turtle but noted differences from Archelon, so assigned the genus to Protostegidae indet.[5]
References
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- ^ FRITSCH, A. 1905a. Synopsis der Saurier der böhm. Kreideformation. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Böhmischen Gesellschaft derWissenschaften, Classe MathematischNaturwissenschaftliche 1905(8), 1–7.
- ^ FRITSCH, A. 1905b. Vorläufige Notiz über Miscellanea palaeontologica aus Böhmen und America. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Classe MathematischNaturwissenschaftliche 21, 1–3.
- ^ PERSSON, P. O. 1963. A revision of the classification of the Plesiosauria with a synopsis of the stratigraphical and geographical distribution of the group. Lunds Universitet Årsskrift 65, 1–23.
- ^ KARL, H.-V. 2002. Übersicht über die fossilen marinen Schildkrötenfamilien Zentraleuropas (Reptilia, Testudines). Mauritiana (Altenburg) 18, 171–202.
- ^ Kear, B.P., Ekrt, B., Prokop, J. & Georgalis, G.L. (2014) Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Geological Magazine, 151, 183–198.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756813000502
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