Besano Formation
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The Besano Formation is a geological formation in the southern Alps of northwestern Italy and southern Switzerland. This formation, a thin but fossiliferous succession of dolomite and black shale, is
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Cymbospondylus buchseri skeleton 01
Cyamodus hildegardis
Besanosaurus
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Besanosaurus is an extinct genus of Middle Triassic ichthyosaur from Monte San Giorgio of Italy and Switzerland, containing the single species B. leptorhynchus. Besanosaurus was named by Cristiano Dal
Besano Formation
…encompassing other "rauisuchians" and their descendants, the crocodylomorphs. Ichthyosauria Ichthyosaurs of the Besano Formation Genus Species Notes Images Besanosaurus B. leptorhynchus A large merriamosaurian ichthyosaur, with a maximum length of around 8 meters (26 ft). Its skull was relatively small but also extremely…
Skull and front part of the skeleton of BES SC 999, the holotype of Besanosaurus
Referred specimen PIMUZ T 4847 on display at the Natural History Museum, Zurich
Diagram of the specimen assigned to Pessosaurus that was suggested to have affinities with Mikadocephalus