Acteosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic lizard that lived in the upper Cretaceous period. Its species, A. tommasinii and A. crassicostatus, were described in 1860 and 1993. Though A. crassicostatus is probably a junior synonym for Adriosaurus suessi, A. tommasinii was found to be similar to coniasaurs, mosasauroids, and a sister taxon to modern snakes in 2010.[1]
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genus, Acteosaurus was described in 1860 by German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer. There exist two known species of Acteosaurus called...
ISSN 0024-4082. Alessandro Palci & Michael W. Caldwell (2010a). "Redescription of Acteosaurus tommasinii von Meyer, 1860, and a discussion of evolutionary trends within...
PMID 25803280. Alessandro Palci; Michael W. Caldwell (2010a). "Redescription of Acteosaurus tommasinii von Meyer, 1860, and a discussion of evolutionary trends within...
Reptiles Paleontology Mosasaur Platynota Aigialosaur Redescription of Acteosaurus tommasinii von Meyer, 1860, and a discussion of evolutionary trends within...
NHMR2867. In 2004, Michael S. Y. Lee and Michael W. Caldwell reevaluated Acteosaurus crassicostatus which was based on a small lizard fossil found in Comen...
(modern-day Slovenia) by Andreas Kornhuber in 1893. He compared it to Acteosaurus tommasinii, as both were uncovered from the same area. There were numerous...
Osvaldo Tommasini (1879–1964), Italian painter and poet, known as Farfa Acteosaurus tommasini, extinct lizard, named after Muzio Tommasini Tommasini's crocus...
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