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

Parent taxon: Platypterygiinae according to M. S. Arkhangelsky and N. G. Zverkov 2014

See also Druckenmiller and Maxwell 2010, Fischer et al. 2013, Fischer et al. 2012, Fischer et al. 2011, Ji et al. 2016 and Robert et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Acuetzpalin, Aegirosaurus, Brachypterygius, Caypullisaurus, Maiaspondylus, Parrassaurus, Pervushovisaurus, Platypterygius, Simbirskiasaurus, Sisteronia, Sveltonectes

Subtaxa: Athabascasaurus bitumineus

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Type: Athabascasaurus bitumineus

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Syncrude Base Mine, West side III (Cretaceous of Alberta)

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