-
referred to
Platypterygius have been
found throughout different continents, the
holotype specimen was
found in Germany. As
Platypterygius contains multiple...
- distribution. All
fossils from this
period were
referred to a
single genus:
Platypterygius. This last
ichthyosaur genus was
thought to have
become extinct early...
-
described as a
subgenus of
Platypterygius, but
later work
showed that it was
sufficiently distinct from the type
species of
Platypterygius, P. platydactylus,...
-
Acamptonectes and Mollesaurus.
Aegirosaurus was
found more
closely related to
Platypterygius, and thus does not
belong to the Ophthalmosaurinae. The
cladogram below...
-
problem in
ophthalmosaur taxonomy is
presented by
Platypterygius, with the type
species Platypterygius platydactylus suffering from a
description insufficient...
- Ophthalmosauridae,
Ophthalmosaurinae and Platypterygiinae.
Ophthalmosaurus and
Platypterygius were
found to be non-monophyletic.
Ophthalmosauridae was characterized...
- 1139/E10-028. Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 1998, On the
Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius:
Palaeontological Journal, v. 32, n. 6, p. 611-615. Motani, Ryosuke;...
- it to be most
closely related to "
Platypterygius" americ****,
which probably do not
belong to the
genus Platypterygius.
Maiaspondylus was
named by Erin...
- the
larger specimen. In the same
formation the
fossil ichthyosaurs Platypterygius sachicarum and
Muiscasaurus catheti and the
brachiosaur Padillasaurus...
- sca****r girdle. It was ****igned to the
genus Platypterygius in a 2008 article. Historically, the
genus Platypterygius has been
treated as a catch-all wastebasket...
