Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae

Full reference: I. Paparella, E. E. Maxwell, A. Cipriani, S. Roncace, and M. W. Caldwell. 2017. The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Umbrian-Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy). Geological Magazine 154(4):837-858

Parent taxon: Ophthalmosauridae according to I. Paparella et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Apatodonosaurus, Argovisaurus, Arthropterygius, Baptanodon, Catutosaurus, Ichthyosaurus doughtyi, Keilhauia, Muiscasaurus, Nannopterygius, Ophthalmosaurinae, Platypterygiidae, Platypterygiinae

Subtaxa: Gengasaurus nicosiai

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Camponocecchio, Genga (Jurassic of Italy)

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