Pessosaurus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| fossil_range = Middle Triassic

| taxon = Pessosaurus

| authority = Wiman, 1910

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Pessosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaurs{{cite web |url=https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=36567 |title=†Pessosaurus Wiman 1910 |work=Paleobiology Database |publisher=Fossilworks |access-date=17 December 2021}} which existed during the Middle Triassic period.{{cite journal | last = Sepkoski | first = Jack | title = A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (entry on Reptilia) | journal = Bulletins of American Paleontology | volume = 363 |pages=1–560 | date = 2002 | url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=663&rank=class | accessdate = 2008-09-28}}

There are two species:Wiman. C. (1910) Ichthyosaurs from the Triassic Spitzbergens [in Swedish]. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala 10: 125–148.

• Pessosaurus polaris Hulke, 1873
• Pessosaurus suevicus Huene, 1916