Species
Valid Extinct

Ophthalmosaurus icenicus

Seeley 1874

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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
Ophthalmosaurinae Subfamily
Ophthalmosaurus Genus
Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Species
Fossil sites 5 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3
🇦🇷 Argentina
1
🇲🇽 Mexico
1
Geological formations
La Caja
1
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
1
Oxfordian (161.5–154.8 Ma)
1
Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)
3
Synonyms (2)
Ancanamunia mendozana subjective synonym of Ophthalmosaurus icenicus
Ophthalmosaurus pleydelli subjective synonym of Ophthalmosaurus icenicus
Bibliography
Original description
H. G. Seeley. 1874. On the pectoral arch and fore limb of Ophthalmosaurs, a new ichthyosaurian genus from the Oxford Clay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 30:696-707 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
R. Araujo, A. S. Smith, and J. Liston. 2008. Alfred Leeds fossil vertebrate collection of the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 26:17-32 DOI ↗
M.-C. Buchy, W. Stinnesbeck, and A. H. Gonzalez Gonzalez. 2006. A new Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) marine vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in north-eastern Mexico. 4th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (Hantkeniana) 5:17-19
C. Rusconi. 1940. Nueva especie de ictiosaurio del Jurásico de Mendoza [New species of ichthyosaur from the Jurassic of Mendoza]. Boletin Paleontológico de Buenos Aires 11:1-4
C. W. Andrews. 1910. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Marine Reptiles of the Oxford Clay. Based on the Leeds Collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London. Part I DOI ↗
G. von Arthaber. 1906. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Organisation und der Anpassungserscheinungen des genus Metriorhynchus. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 19(4):287-320