Clarazia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Clarazia | image = Clarazia schinzi.JPG | image_caption = ''C. schinzi'' fossil at the Natural History Museum of the University of Zurich | fossil_range = Middle Triassic, {{Fossil range|247.2|235.0}} | authority = Peyer, 1936 | type_species = '''''Clarazia schinzi''''' | type_species_authority = Peyer, 1936 }}

'''''Clarazia''''' is an extinct genus of thalattosaur from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland. It is represented by a single type species, '''''Clarazia schinzi''''', which was named in 1936.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Peyer |first=Bernhard |author-link=Bernhard Peyer |year=1936 |title=Die Triasfauna der Tessiner Kalkalpen. X. ''Clarazia schinzi'' nov. gen. nov. spec. |journal=Abhandlungen der Schweizerischen Paläontologischen Gesellschaft |issue=57 |pages=1–61}}</ref><ref name=OR87>{{cite journal |last=Rieppel |first=Olivier |year=1987 |title=''Clarazia'' and ''Hescheleria'': a re-investigation of two problematical reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=A195 |issue=4–6 |pages=101–129}}</ref>

==See also== * ''Askeptosaurus'' * Marine reptile

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Category:Thalattosauria Category:Middle Triassic reptiles of Europe Category:Prehistoric reptile genera Category:Fossil taxa described in 1936