Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Grippiidae

Full reference: J. Huang, R. Motani, D. Jiang, A. Tintori, O. Rieppel, M. Zhou, X. Ren and R. Zhang. 2019. The new ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauromorpha) from Majiashan, Chaohu, Anhui Province, China. PeerJ 7(e7561)

Belongs to Chaohusaurus according to J. Huang et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis, Chaohusaurus geishanensis, Chaohusaurus zhangjiawanensis, Chensaurus chaoxianensis

Type specimen: AGM AGB7401, a skeleton. Its type locality is Majiashan Quarry, which is in an Olenekian marine limestone in the Nanlinghu Formation of China.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Majiashan Quarry

Show more details

Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.