Pontosaurus

Pontosaurus is a now extinct genus of pythonomorph from the Late Cretaceous period. The type species, P. lesinensis, is from Hvar in Croatia. It was originally named Hydrosaurus lesinensis and placed in the genus Hydrosaurus Wagler, 1830,^[2] which is preoccupied by the agamid genus Hydrosaurus Kaup, 1828, and now considered a synonym of Varanus, but later placed in a separate genus Pontosaurus. A second species, P. kornhuberi, is known from the Sannine Formation in Lebanon.^[3]

Pontosaurus Temporal range: Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pontosaurus kornhuberi fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	†Dolichosauridae
Genus:	†Pontosaurus Gorjanovic-Kramberger, 1892
Species
P. kornhuberi Caldwell, 2006[1] P. lesinensis (Kornhuber, 1873 [originally Hydrosaurus lesinensis]) (type)

Head of Pontosaurus kornhuberi

See also

• Paleontology portal

• List of mosasaurs