Simoedosaurus
Simoedosaurus is an extinct reptile known from the Paleocene of North America, Europe and western Asia, and a member of the Choristodera, a group of aquatic reptiles that lived in the Northern Hemisphere from the Jurassic to the early Cenozoic.
| Simoedosaurus | |
|---|---|
| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Choristodera |
| Suborder: | †Neochoristodera |
| Genus: | †Simoedosaurus Gervais, 1877 |
| Type species | |
| †Simoedosaurus lemoinei Gervais, 1877 | |
A second species, S. dakotensis got its own genus, Kosmodraco, in 2022.
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