Phalarodon major Maisch and Matzke 2000 (ichthyosaur)

Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Mixosauridae

Full reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2000. The Ichthyosauria. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Palaontologie) 298:1-159

Belongs to Phalarodon according to M. W. Maisch 2010

See also Maisch and Matzke 2000

Sister taxa: Phalarodon atavus, Phalarodon callawayi, Phalarodon fraasi, Phalarodon nordenskioeldii

Type specimen: Its type locality is Aach, near Freudenstadt, which is in an Anisian marine horizon in Germany

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Aach, near Freudenstadt

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