Hydrorion
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| Hydrorion Temporal range: Lower Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Order: | †Plesiosauria |
| Superfamily: | †Plesiosauroidea |
| Family: | †Microcleididae |
| Genus: | †Hydrorion Großmann, 2007 |
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| †Hydrorion brachypterygius | |
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Hydrorion (meaning 'water hunter') is a genus of plesiosaur from the Toarcian Age of the Lower Jurassic. It is only known from multiple specimens, all discovered in the Posidonia Shale of south-western Germany. The only species of Hydrorion is H. brachypterygius, which was originally described as a species of Plesiosaurus and then Microcleidus.[1][2] It was a relatively small plesiosaur, with the largest specimen measuring 4 m (13 ft) long.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ F. v. Huene. (1923). Ein neuer Plesiosaurier aus dem oberen Lias Württembergs. Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg 79:3-23
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