Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Full reference: E. E. Maxwell. 2010. Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2):403-415
Parent taxon: Ophthalmosauridae according to N. G. Zverkov et al. 2015
See also Arkhangelsky and Zverkov 2014, Campos et al. 2020, Druckenmiller and Maxwell 2010, Fernandez and Maxwell 2012, Fischer et al. 2013, Fischer et al. 2012 and Fischer et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Apatodonosaurus, Argovisaurus, Baptanodon, Catutosaurus, Gengasaurus, Ichthyosaurus doughtyi, Keilhauia, Muiscasaurus, Nannopterygius, Ophthalmosaurinae, Platypterygiidae, Platypterygiinae
Subtaxa: Arthropterygius chrisorum Arthropterygius hoybergeti Arthropterygius lundi Arthropterygius thalassonotus Arthropterygius volgensis
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (2 collections), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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