Ophthalmosaurus robustus Gilmore 1905 (ichthyosaur)

Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae

Alternative combination: Baptanodon robustus

Full reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1905. Notes on osteology of Baptanodon with a description of a new species. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(9):325-337

Belongs to Ophthalmosaurus according to O. P. Hay 1930

See also Gilmore 1905

Sister taxa: Ophthalmosaurus discus, Ophthalmosaurus icenicus, Ophthalmosaurus marshi, Ophthalmosaurus monocharactus, Ophthalmosaurus natans, Ophthalmosaurus reedi, Ophthalmosaurus undorensis, Ophthalmosaurus yasykovi, Ancanamunia espinacitense, Khudiakovia calloviensis

Type specimen: CM 919, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Red Fork, Powder River, which is in a Bathonian/Oxfordian marine horizon in the Sundance Formation of Wyoming.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Red Fork, Powder River

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