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Ophthalmosaurus icenicus

Reptilia - Ophthalmosauridae

Taxonomy
Ophthalmosaurus icenicus was named by Seeley (1874). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Peterborough area, Leeds Collection, which is in a Callovian offshore mudstone in the Oxford Clay Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Microdontosaurus.

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1874Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Seeley
1890Ophthalmosaurus pleydelli Lydekker
1905Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Gilmore p. 125
1910Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Andrews p. 61 figs. Pl. 1, text-figs. 1-42
1928Ophthalmosaurus oceanicus Perrier p. 3089
1930Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Hay p. 127
1940Myobradypterygius mendozanus Rusconi p. 2 fig. 1
1942Ancanamunia mendozana Rusconi p. 2
1948Ancanamunia mendozana Rusconi p. 78
1960Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Delair p. 67
1960Ophthalmosaurus pleydelli Delair p. 67
2000Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Maisch and Matzke pp. 78
2003Ophthalmosaurus icenicus McGowan and Motani
2008Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Araujo et al. p. 26 figs. 7-8
2010Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Maisch
2013Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Fischer et al.
2014Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Arkhangelsky and Zverkov
2014Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Frey and Stinnesbeck p. 104
2016Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Ji et al. p. 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Ichthyosauromorpha
—Ichthyosauriformes
—Ichthyopterygia(Owen 1840)
—Eoichthyosauria
—Ichthyosauria(de Blainville 1835)
—Baracromia
familyOphthalmosauridaeAndrews 1910
subfamilyOphthalmosaurinaeBaur 1887
genusOphthalmosaurus
speciesicenicus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Seeley 1874
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Invalid names: Ancanamunia mendozana Rusconi 1940 [synonym], Ophthalmosaurus pleydelli Lydekker 1890 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available