Cartorhynchus

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title: Cartorhynchus
text: Cartorhynchus is an extinct genus of early ichthyosauriform marine reptile that lived during the Early Triassic epoch, about 248 million years ago. The genus contains a single species, Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, named in 2014 by Ryosuke Motani and colleagues from a single nearly-complete skeleton found near Chaohu, Anhui Province, China. Along with its close relative Sclerocormus, Cartorhynchus was part of a diversification of marine reptiles that occurred suddenly during the Spathian substage,
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description: Extinct genus of reptiles
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartorhynchus
date created: 2014-11-11T16:47:29Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T06:33:07Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Cartorhynchus_holotype_NGMC.jpg","width":1146,"height":1728}
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