Fossilien No. 20
by Nathan Benn - Nathan Benn - © Nathan Benn/Ottochrome/Corbis
Pachypleurosaurus fossil
Reptile fossil of the Triassac Period named Pachypleurosaurus found high in the Swiss Alps. This specimen was found on the Monte San Giorgio, Tessin, Switzerland and is in the collection of the Institute of Palaeontology in Zurich. The prehistoric animal resembled an aquatic lizard and it is long extinct. This fossil shows a complete skeleton with long vertebrate. Pachypleurosaurus is in Nothosaur order and are related to modern crocodiles.