Species
Valid Extinct

Argovisaurus martafernandezi

Miedema et al. 2024

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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Argovisaurus Genus
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Argovisaurus martafernandezi Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1
Geological formations
Hauptrogenstein
1
Temporal distribution
Bathonian (168.2–165.3 Ma)
1
Bibliography
Original description
F. Miedema, D. Bastiaans, and T. M. Scheyer, C. Klug, E. E. Maxwell. 2024. A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria. BMC Ecology and Evolution 24(34):1-25 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
F. Miedema, D. Bastiaans, and T. M. Scheyer, C. Klug, E. E. Maxwell. 2024. A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria. BMC Ecology and Evolution 24(34):1-25 DOI ↗