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Ichthyosaurus

Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae

Taxonomy
Ichthyosaurus was named by Koenig (1818) [Sepkoski's age data: J Hett J Plie].

It was synonymized subjectively with Proteosaurus by Hay (1902), Hay (1930).

It was assigned to Enaliosauri by Parkinson (1822); to Ichthyosauroidea by Fitzinger (1826); to Enaliosauria by Owen (1840); to Nexipodes by Meyer (1845); to Ichthyopterygia by Owen (1859); to Ichthyopterygia by Owen (1860), Owen (1861), Lydekker (1889); to Neoichthyosauria by Sander (2000); to Ichthyosauria by Sepkoski (2002); to Ichthyosauria by Brusatte et al. (2015); to Thunnosauria by Motani (1999), Maisch and Matzke (2000), Fischer et al. (2011), Fischer et al. (2012), Fischer et al. (2013), Arkhangelsky and Zverkov (2014), Ji et al. (2016); and to Ichthyosauridae by d'Orbigny (1849), Günther (1886), Merriam (1908), Appleby (1967), McGowan (1974), Carroll (1988), McGowan and Motani (2003), Maisch et al. (2008), Maisch (2010), Bennett et al. (2012), Lomax and Massare (2015), Massare and Lomax (2018).

Species
I. acutirostris (syn. I. crassimanus, I. longipennis, I. zetlandicus, I. microdon, I. longifrons), I. aduncus, I. advena, I. aequalis, I. amalthei, I. angustidens, I. anningae, I. arietis, I. bambergensis, I. biscissus, I. bodenbenderi, I. bonneyi, I. brachyspondylus, I. breviceps, I. californicus, I. ceramensis, I. chalarodeirus, I. communis (syn. I. chiroparamekostinus, I. fortimanus, I. latimanus, I. chiropolyostinus, I. intermedius, I. polyostinus), I. coniformis, I. conybeari, I. crassicostatus, I. cuvieri, I. dilatatus, I. entheciodon, I. enthekiodon, I. extremus, I. franciscanus, I. giganteus, I. hectori (syn. I. pottsi), I. hexagonus, I. hildesiensis, I. hygrodeirus, I. immanis, I. indicus, I. kokeni, I. lacunosae, I. larkini, I. latifrons, I. leucopetraeus, I. longimanus, I. longipes, I. nasimowii, I. normanniae, I. numismalis, I. ovalis, I. planartus, I. platymerus, I. posthumus, I. psilonoti, I. quenstedti, I. saladensis, I. sanjuanensis, I. sinuatus, I. somersetensis (syn. I. paramecostinus), I. steleodon, I. tenuirostris (syn. I. chirostrongulostinus, I. grandipes), I. thyreospondylus, I. torrei, I. torulosi, I. trigonodon, I. trigonus, I. triscissus, I. walkeri, I. zollerianus, Protoichthyosaurus prosostealis, Tibetosaurus, Tibetosaurus tingjiensis
Sister genera
Tibetosaurus