Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Parent taxon: Ophthalmosauridae according to L. Campos et al. 2021
See also Arkhangelsky and Zverkov 2014, Bardet et al. 2015, Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 2020, Fischer 2016, Fischer et al. 2012, Pardo-Pérez et al. 2012, Pérez et al. 2015, Robert et al. 2014 and Zverkov and Grigoriev 2020
Sister taxa: Apatodonosaurus, Argovisaurus, Arthropterygius, Baptanodon, Brachypterygiidae, Catutosaurus, Gengasaurus, Ichthyosaurus doughtyi, Keilhauia, Muiscasaurus, Nannopterygius, Ophthalmosaurinae, Platypterygiidae
Subtaxa: Acuetzpalin Aegirosaurus Athabascasaurus Brachypterygius Caypullisaurus Maiaspondylus Parrassaurus Pervushovisaurus Platypterygius Simbirskiasaurus Sisteronia Sveltonectes
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (21), Canada (3: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Colombia (1), France (13), Germany (4), India (2), New Zealand (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (7), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (6: Kansas, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Germany (2), Mexico (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 91 collections including 103 occurrences