Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae

Full reference: P. S. Druckenmiller and E. E. Maxwell. 2010. A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:1037-1053

Belongs to Athabascasaurus according to M. S. Arkhangelsky and N. G. Zverkov 2014

See also Druckenmiller and Maxwell 2010, Fischer et al. 2013 and Ji et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: TMP 2000.29.01, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Syncrude Base Mine, West side III, which is in an Albian transition zone/lower shoreface sandstone in the Clearwater Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Syncrude Base Mine, West side III

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