Helveticosaurus

Helveticosaurus
Temporal range: Middle Triassic,
Fossil at the Natural History Museum, Zurich
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Family: †Helveticosauridae
Genus: †Helveticosaurus
Peyer, 1955
Type species
†Helveticosaurus zollingeri
Peyer, 1955 (type)

Helveticosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid marine reptile known from the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian boundary) of southern Switzerland and Italy. It contains a single species, Helveticosaurus zollingeri, mainly known from a nearly complete holotype skeleton, PIMUZ T 4352. The skeleton was collected at the Cava Tre Fontane site on Monte San Giorgio, a mountain well known for its rich record of marine life during the Middle Triassic.

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