Species
Valid Extinct

Chacaicosaurus cayi

Fernandez 1994

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
Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
Baracromia Unranked clade
Chacaicosaurus Genus
Chacaicosaurus cayi Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Temporal distribution
Bajocian (170.9–168.2 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
M. Fernandez. 1994. A new long-snouted ichthyosaur from the Early Bajocian of Neuquen Basin (Argentina). Ameghiniana 31(3):291-297
Bibliography (1)
Z. Gasparini and M. Fernández. 2005. Jurassic marine reptiles of the Neuquen Basin: records, faunas, and their palaeobiogeographic significance. The Neuquen Basin, Argentina: A Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics; Geological Society, London, Special Publications 252:279-294 DOI ↗