Cymbospondylus was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Cymbospondylus lived during the Early to Middle Triassic, with fossils found in North America and Europe.
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Cymbospondylus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- E. Kuhn-Schnyder. 1980. Über Reste eines großen Ichthyosauriers aus den Buchensteiner Schichten (ladinische Stufe der Trias) der Seceda (NE St. Ulrich/Ortisei, Prov. Bozen, Italien). Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 83:231-244
- J. A. Massare and J. M. Callaway. 1994. Cymbospondylus (Ichthyosauria: Shastasauridae) from the Lower Triassic Thaynes Formation of southeastern Idaho. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(1):139-141
- J. C. Merriam. 1905. A primitive ichthyosaurian limb from the Middle Triassic of Nevada. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 4(2):33-38
