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unusual facts about Middle Triassic


Varenna

The main sights is the Castello di Vezio, which, among the rest, houses a small museum dedicated to the Lariosaurus, a sea reptile from the Middle Triassic period.


Sinosaurosphargis

Sinosaurosphargis is an extinct genus of non-sauropterygian marine reptile known from the lower Middle Triassic (Pelsonian substage, Anisian stage) of Yangmazhai, Luoping County of Yunnan Province, southwestern China.

Stenopopanoceras

Stenopopanoceras is an involute, discoidal ceratitid ammonite from the Middle Triassic that has been found on Spitsbergen and in arctic Russia and British Columbia.

Taphrognathus

In 1947 the name Taphrognathus was also used to describe a prehistoric amphibian from the Middle Triassic of Arizona, but the amphibian was renamed Hadrokkosaurus in 1957 after the synonymy was realized.


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Makhtesh Ramon

The pterioid bivalve Family Ramonalinidae is found in early Middle Triassic rocks of Makhtesh Ramon and was named after this feature.

Mixosaurus

Many specimens of Mixosaurus cornalianus have been found from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio and the Tessin areas on the border of Italy and Switzerland.

Plagiosternum

Plagiosternum (plae-jee-oh-ster-num, meaning "sideways breastbone") was a middle Triassic temnospondyl that is native to Spitsbergen.