Reptilia - Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Alternative spellings: Ophthalmosauria, Ophthalmosauria
Invalid subtaxa: Baptanodontidae Marsh 1879, Baptanodontinae Marsh 1879, Sauranodontidae Marsh 1879 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Baracromia according to L. Campos et al. 2021
See also Appleby 1967, Araujo et al. 2008, Arkhangelsky and Zverkov 2014, Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 2020, Campos et al. 2020, Delsett et al. 2017, Fernández 2003, Fischer 2016, Fischer et al. 2013, Gilmore 1905, Gilmore 1905, Günther 1886, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Herne et al. 2018, Ji et al. 2016, Maisch 2010, Maisch and Matzke 2000, Marsh 1879, Maxwell and Caldwell 2003, McGowan and Motani 2003, Merriam 1908, Miedema et al. 2024, Moon 2017, Moon 2019, Motani 1999, Paparella et al. 2017, Pérez et al. 2015, Tyborowski 2016, Zverkov 2022 and Zverkov and Grigoriev 2020
Sister taxon: Chacaicosaurus
Subtaxa: Apatodonosaurus Argovisaurus Arthropterygius Baptanodon Catutosaurus Gengasaurus Ichthyosaurus doughtyi Keilhauia Muiscasaurus Nannopterygius Ophthalmosaurinae Platypterygiidae Platypterygiinae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (22), Canada (4: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan), Chile (1), Colombia (2), France (13), Germany (6), India (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (14), United States (6: Kansas, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (1), Argentina (14), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), Cuba (1), France (3), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (4), Norway (4), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (15), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (8: Alaska, Wyoming)
Total: 161 collections including 187 occurrences