Genus
Valid Extinct

Neusticosaurus

Seeley 1882

Neusticosaurus, is an extinct genus of marine reptile belonging to the pachypleurosaurs, from Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Neusticosaurus was one of the smallest nothosaurs and probably fed on small fish. The type specimen is held at the Natural History Museum UK.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
14
Group
Sauroptérygiens
Marine
Neusticosaurus
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Several Neuticosaurus pusillus at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. © FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Sauropterygia Suborder
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Eosauropterygia Order
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Pachypleurosauroidea Superfamily
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Pachypleurosauridae Family
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Neusticosaurus Genus
Fossil sites 14 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇭 Switzerland
6
🇮🇹 Italy
4
🇸🇰 Slovakia
1
🇫🇷 France
1
🇦🇹 Austria
1
🇩🇪 Germany
1
Geological formations
Cassina
4
Monte San Giorgio bituminous shales
1
Gutenstein
1
Besano
1
Lower Meride Limestone
1
Cunardo
1
Partnach
1
Meride
1
Erfurt
1
Perledo-Varenna
1
Temporal distribution
Ladinian (241.464–237 Ma)
10
Anisian (246.7–241.464 Ma)
4
Species (6)
Neusticosaurus edwardsi 243 Ma
Neusticosaurus edwardsii 239 Ma
Neusticosaurus peyeri 241 Ma
Neusticosaurus pusillus 239 Ma
Neusticosaurus pygmaeus 247 Ma
Neusticosaurus toeplitschi 239 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
H. G. Seeley. 1882. On Neusticosaurus pusillus (Fraas), an amphibious reptile having affinities with the terrestrial Nothosauria and with the marine Plesiosauria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 38:350-366 DOI ↗
Bibliography (12)
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A. López-Arbarello, T. Bürgin, and H. Furrer, R. Stockar. 2016. New holostean fishes (Actinopterygii: Neopterygii) from the Middle Triassic of the Monte San Giorgio (Canton Ticino, Switzerland). PeerJ 4(e2234):1-61 DOI ↗
S. Renesto and V. Pieroni. 2013. Middle Triassic vertebrate remains from Rasa Village (Varese, northern Italy). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 61:485-488
R. Stockar and S. Renesto. 2011. Co-occurrence of Neusticosaurus edwardsii and N. peyeri (Reptilia) in the Lower Meride Limestone (Middle Triassic, Monte San Giorgio). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104:S167-S178 DOI ↗
R. R. Schoch. 1999. Comparative osteology of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger, 1828) from the Middle Triassic (Lettenkeuper: Longobardian) of Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Thüringen). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 278:1-170
O. Rieppel. 1998. The status of the sauropterygian reptile genera Ceresiosaurus, Lariosaurus, and Silvestrosaurus from the Middle Triassic of Europe. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 38:1-46 DOI ↗
O. Rieppel and K. Lin. 1995. Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana: Geology, new series (32):1-44 DOI ↗
O. Rieppel. 1993. Status of the pachypleurosauroid Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi Nopcsa (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from the Middle Triassic of Austria. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 27:1-17 DOI ↗
P. M. Sander. 1989. The pachypleurosaurids (Reptilia: Nothosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) with the description of a new species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 325:561-666
P. M. Sander. 1988. A fossil reptile embryo from the Middle Triassic of the Alps. Science 329:780-782 DOI ↗
G. Corroy. 1934. Les poissons et les reptiles du Muschelkalk et du Rhetien de Basse-Provence. Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France 3, serie 5(5-6):475-483
F. Bassani. 1886. Sui fossili e sull'età degli schisti bituminosi triasici di Besano in Lombardia [On the fossils and the age of the Triassic bituminous schist of Besano in Lombardy]. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturale del Museo Civili de Storia Naturali 29:15-72