Species
Valid Extinct

Platypterygius hauthali

(von Huene 1927)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
5
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
Baracromia Unranked clade
Ophthalmosauridae Family
Platypterygiinae Subfamily
Platypterygius Genus
Platypterygius hauthali Species
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇱 Chile
4
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
Geological formations
Zapata
4
Rio Belgrano
1
Temporal distribution
Barremian (125.77–121.4 Ma)
2
Hauterivian (132.6–125.77 Ma)
3
Bibliography
Original description
M. Fernandez and M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 2005. Revision of Platypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927 (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) from the early Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):583-587 DOI ↗
Bibliography (4)
J. M. Pardo-Pérez, M. Malkowski, and P. Zambrano, D. R. Lomax, C. G. Martín, J. Kaluza, H. Ortíz, A. P. Marín, R. Villa-Martínez, M. Yurac, M. Cáceres, A. Zegers, J. Delgado, F. Scapini, C. Astete, E. E. Maxwell. 2025. The first gravid ichthyosaur from the Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous): a complete Myobradypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927 excavated from the border of the Tyndall Glacier, Torres del Paine National Park, southernmost Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 44(4):1-5 DOI ↗
J. P. Pérez, R. A. Otero, and M. E. Suárez. 2015. Síntesis del registro fósil de ictiosaurios (Reptilia: Icthyosauria) en Chile. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:113-150
W. Stinnesbeck, E. Frey, and L. Rivas, J. P. Pérez, M. L. Cartes, C. S. Soto, P. Z. Lobos. 2014. A Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur graveyard in deep marine slope channel deposits at Torres del Paine National Park, southern Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin 126(9-10):1317-1339 DOI ↗
M. Fernandez and M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 2005. Revision of Platypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927 (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) from the early Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):583-587 DOI ↗