Ophthalmosaurinae

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Ophthalmosaurinae
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, 171.6–99.6 Ma
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Ophthalmosaurus icenicus skeleton
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Family: Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily: Ophthalmosaurinae
Baur, 1887
Genera

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<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Cryopterygius
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Janusaurus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Leninia
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Mollesaurus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Ophthalmosaurus
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Palvennia
<templatestyles src="Noitalic/styles.css"/>Undorosaurus

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Ophthalmosaurinae is an extinct subfamily of ophthalmosaurid thunnosaur ichthyosaurs from the Middle Jurassic to the late Early Cretaceous (Bajocian - Albian) of Europe, North America and South America. Currently, the oldest and the basalmost known ophthalmosaurine is Mollesaurus from the early Bajocian of Argentina. Ophthalmosaurines were characterized by a large extracondylar area of the basioccipital in form of a thick and concave peripheral band, posterodistally deflected ulnar facet of the humerus, large ulna with concave and edgy posterior surface and ischiopubis with obturator foramen.[1]

Phylogeny

Ophthalmosaurus

Ophthalmosaurinae was named in 1887 by George H. Baur. It is a stem-based taxon defined phylogenetically for the first time by Fischer et al. (2012) as "all taxa closer to Ophthalmosaurus icenicus than to Platypterygius hercynicus". The cladogram below follows Fischer et al. 2012.[1]

Ophthalmosauridae 

Arthropterygius chrisorum




Platypterygiinae


 Ophthalmosaurinae 

Mollesaurus periallus




Ophthalmosaurus icenicus




Baptanodon natans



Acamptonectes densus







References

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