Corosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| image = Triassic marine vertebrate apex predators.png

| image_caption = Corosaurus (12) and other Early Triassic marine predators

| fossil_range = Early Triassic, {{fossil_range|247.4|245}}

| display_parents = 3

| genus = Corosaurus

| grandparent_authority = Kuhn, 1961

| parent_authority = Case, 1936

| authority = Case, 1936

| species = alcovensis

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Corosaurus is an extinct genus of pistosauroid known from Wyoming of the United States.{{cite journal |author=Ermine Cowles Case |year=1936 |title=A nothosaur from the Triassic of Wyoming |journal= University of Michigan Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=1–36 }}{{cite journal |author=Olivier Rieppel |year=1998 |title=Corosaurus alcovensis Case and the phylogenetic interrelationships of Triassic stem-group Sauropterygia |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=124 |issue=1 |pages=1–41 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1998.tb00568.x |doi-access=free }} The holotype measured about {{cvt|1.65|m|ft}} long, while larger specimens would have belonged to individuals measuring more than {{cvt|4|m|ft}} long.{{cite journal |last1=Scheyer |first1=Torsten M. |last2=Romano |first2=Carlo |last3=Jenks |first3=Jim |last4=Bucher |first4=Hugo |title=Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective |journal=PLOS ONE |date=19 March 2014 |volume=9 |issue=3 |pages=e88987 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0088987 |pmid=24647136 |pmc=3960099 |bibcode=2014PLoSO...988987S |doi-access=free }}