Proneusticosaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles
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Proneusticosaurus is an extinct genus of basal eosauropterygian that lived during the Anisian stage of the Middle Triassic epoch.
| Proneusticosaurus Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | †Sauropterygia |
| Genus: | †Proneusticosaurus |
| Species: | †P. silesiacus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Proneusticosaurus silesiacus Volz, 1902 | |
Palaeobiology
Proneusticosaurus silesiacus had a slow growth rate and lived in shallow marine environments.[1]