Despite their profound adaptations to the aquatic realm and their apparent success
throughout the Triassic and the Jurassic, ichthyosaurs became extinct roughly 30 million …

The largest phylogenetic analysis of ichthyosaurs to date is presented, with 114 ingroup taxa
coded at species level. Completeness of the taxa included varied from> 98% to< 2%; 10 …

ABSTRACT The Upper Jurassic ichthyosaurs, characterized by the intermedium/humeral
contact are known from several localities in Europe and North America. However, they are …

Background Ichthyosauria is a diverse clade of marine amniotes that spanned most of the
Mesozoic. Until recently, most authors interpreted the fossil record as showing that three …

The ichthyosaur material of the British Middle and Upper Jurassic referable to
Ophthalmosaurus icenicus (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) is revisited and re …

During the last decade, abundant ichthyopterygian material has been found from the
Triassic of South China as well as the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Europe and …

Recent study of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs has brought us a number of new taxa;
however, the validity of several ophthalmosaurid taxa from the Volgian (Tithonian) of …

The oldest ophthalmosaurian records worldwide have been recovered from the Aalenian–
Bajocian boundary of the Neuquén Basin in Central-West Argentina (Mendoza and …

Abstract The Middle Jurassic is an important time period for the evolutionary history of
marine reptiles as it represented a transitional phase for many clades. Notably, in …

Abstract The Late Jurassic ichthyosaur Nannopterygius is among the poorest known, with
the only skeleton, NHMUK PV 46497, on display in the Natural History Museum, London …