Maiaspondylus lindoei Maxwell and Caldwell 2006 (ichthyosaur)

Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae

Full reference: E. E. Maxwell and M. W. Caldwell. 2006. A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada. Palaeontology 49(5):1043-1052

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

See also Fischer et al. 2013, Maisch 2010, Maxwell and Caldwell 2006 and Zverkov and Grigoriev 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UALVP 45635, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is Hay River, which is in an Albian marine shale in the Loon River Formation of Canada.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Hay River

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