Another reptile groupIchthyosaurCarnivore
Arthropterygius
Dolphin-shaped sea reptiles: fast swimmers with huge eyes that gave birth to live young at sea instead of laying eggs on land.
Who it is related to: A branch of reptiles separate from the dinosaurs; exactly where it sits on the family tree is still debated.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Ichthyosaurs
- Family
- Ophthalmosauridae
- When it lived
- 143.1–161.5 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Oxfordian – Tithonian
- Named by
- Maxwell, 2010
- Fossil occurrences
- 8 sites
Countries with fossils
- Argentina
- Canada
- Norway
- Russia
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata