Species
Valid Extinct

Eternauta patagonica

Campos et al. 2025

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Baracromia Unranked clade
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Ophthalmosauridae Family
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Platypterygiinae Subfamily
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Eternauta Genus
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Eternauta patagonica Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Vaca Muerta
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
L. Campos, M. S. Fernández, and Y. Herrera, M. Talevi. 2025. Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications. Historical Biology DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
L. Campos, M. S. Fernández, and Y. Herrera, M. Talevi. 2025. Eternauta patagonica gen. et sp. nov.: a new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and its palaeoecological implications. Historical Biology DOI ↗