Utatsusaurus was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Utatsusaurus lived during the Early Triassic, with fossils found in North America and Asia.
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Utatsusaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. J. Wendruff and M. V. H. Wilson. 2012. A fork-tailed coelacanth, Rebellatrix divaricerca, gen. et sp. nov. (Actinistia, Rebellatricidae, fam. nov.), from the Lower Triassic of western Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:499-511
- E. L. Nicholls and D. Brinkman. 1993. A new specimen of Utatsusaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Triassic Sulphur Mountain Formation of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 30:486-490
- N. P. Kelley, R. Motani, and P. Embree, M. J. Orchard. 2016. A new Lower Triassic ichthyopterygian assemblage from Fossil Hill, Nevada. PeerJ 4(e1626)
