''Chelyoposuchus'' is an extinct genus of
henodontid placodont
Placodonts (" Tablet teeth") are an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic period, becoming extinct at the end of the period. They were part of Sauropterygia, the group that includes plesiosaurs. Placodonts were genera ...
found at the Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit,
Halberstadt
Halberstadt ( Eastphalian: ''Halverstidde'') is a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, the capital of Harz district. Located north of the Harz mountain range, it is known for its old town center that was greatly destroyed by Allied bombi ...
, Germany.
[Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, ''Bulletins of American Paleontology'' 363, 1-560] The type species, ''C. crassisquamatus'', was named in 1939.
[O. Kuhn. (1939). Beiträge zur Keuperfauna von Halberstadt ontributions to the Keuper fauna of Halberstadt ''Paläontologische Zeitschrift'' 21:258-286] It was found in the Knollenmergel Member of the
Trossingen Formation
The Trossingen Formation, formerly the Knollenmergel, is a geological formation in Germany and Switzerland. It dates back to the late Norian-Rhaetian.Weishampel et al., 2004, pp.521–525
Vertebrate paleofauna
See also
* List of dinosaur- ...
, which dates to the
late Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma) and the holotype was collected by
Otto Jaekel
Otto Max Johannes Jaekel (21 February 1863 – 6 March 1929) was a German paleontologist and geologist.
Biography
Jaekel was born in Neusalz (Nowa Sól), Prussian Silesia, the son of a builder and the youngest of seven children. He studied at ...
between 1909-1913.
References
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Placodonts
Prehistoric reptile genera
Fossil taxa described in 1939