Thalassiodracon was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Thalassiodracon lived during the Late Triassic and resided in Europe. The first Thalassiodracon fossil was discovered in 1996.
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Thalassiodracon was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. R. I. Cruickshank. 1994. A juvenile plesiosaur (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a pliosauroid-plesiosauroid intermediate?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 112:151-178
- R. Owen. 1840. Report on British fossil reptiles. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 8:43-126
- T. Hawkins. 1834. Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth
