Amotosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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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]
| Amotosaurus Temporal range: Anisian, | |
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| Holotype of Amotosaurus rotfeldensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Family: | †Tanystropheidae |
| Genus: | †Amotosaurus Fraser & Rieppel, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| †Amotosaurus rotfeldensis Fraser & Rieppel, 2006 | |
