Portunatasaurus
Portunatasaurus ("Dugi Otok lizard") is a genus of mosasauroid squamate that lived during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Croatia. It contains a single species, P. krambergeri, recovered from the Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform. It was a relatively small reptile, reaching 1 m (3.3 ft) in length.
| Portunatasaurus Temporal range: Cenomanian-Turonian | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Clade: | †Mosasauria |
| Superfamily: | †Mosasauroidea |
| Genus: | †Portunatasaurus Mekarski et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †P. krambergeri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Portunatasaurus krambergeri Mekarski et al., 2019 | |
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