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A Nothosaur was a sea-going reptile that was able to come out onto land, and had to surface at intervals to breathe. Like all reptiles, it was covered in scales. It was alive 240-210 million years ago, during the Triassic period. It could reach up to 4 metres in length. It fed using ambush tactics. like a crocodile today, its nostrils are on the top of its head, so when its bathing it can still breathe.

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  • Nothosaur
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  • A Nothosaur was a sea-going reptile that was able to come out onto land, and had to surface at intervals to breathe. Like all reptiles, it was covered in scales. It was alive 240-210 million years ago, during the Triassic period. It could reach up to 4 metres in length. It fed using ambush tactics. like a crocodile today, its nostrils are on the top of its head, so when its bathing it can still breathe.
  • Nothosaurus are a group of extinct marine reptiles in the superfamily Nothosauroidea. Along with the placodonts, the nothosaurs were the first major group of reptiles to become mostly aquatic (the earlier, smaller mesosaurs were semi-aquatic) . Nothosaurs were successful throughout the Triassic, and would ultimately give rise to the completely aquatic plesiosaurs, which survived to the end of the Mesozoic era.
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Status
  • Extinct
Kingdom
  • Animalia
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Weight
  • 8(xsd:integer)
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  • Fossil
Title
  • Nothosaurs
Genus
  • 16(xsd:integer)
Class
  • Reptilia
Family
  • Nothosauroidea
Order
  • Sauropterygia
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  • Unknown
Diet
  • Carnivorous
Phylum
  • Chordata
Size
  • -240.0
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  • A Nothosaur was a sea-going reptile that was able to come out onto land, and had to surface at intervals to breathe. Like all reptiles, it was covered in scales. It was alive 240-210 million years ago, during the Triassic period. It could reach up to 4 metres in length. It fed using ambush tactics. like a crocodile today, its nostrils are on the top of its head, so when its bathing it can still breathe.
  • Nothosaurus are a group of extinct marine reptiles in the superfamily Nothosauroidea. Along with the placodonts, the nothosaurs were the first major group of reptiles to become mostly aquatic (the earlier, smaller mesosaurs were semi-aquatic) . Nothosaurs were successful throughout the Triassic, and would ultimately give rise to the completely aquatic plesiosaurs, which survived to the end of the Mesozoic era.
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