Acteosaurus | ||||
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Name | Acteosaurus | |||
Class | Chordata, Reptilia, Scleroglossa | |||
Name Translation | Actaeon Lizard | |||
Period | Cenomanian (Cretaceous) | |||
Location | Slovenia | |||
Diet | Carnivore | |||
Size | Unknown | |||
Acteosaurus is an extinct genus of aquatic lizard that lived in the Late/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.