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

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 …

ABSTRACT A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur, Sveltonectes insolitus, gen. et sp. nov., is
described from a sub-complete and three-dimensionally preserved specimen from the late …

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 …

Recent descriptions of new taxa and recognition of survivorship of Jurassic genera across
the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary bring the total number of Cretaceous ichthyosaur genera …

Background Ichthyosaurs are reptiles that inhabited the marine realm during most of the
Mesozoic. Their Cretaceous representatives have traditionally been considered as the last …

Ophthalmosaurinae is a recently recognized clade of derived ichthyosaurs (marine reptiles)
ranging from the Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) to the late Albian (late Early Cretaceous) …

Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur diversity has markedly increased in recent years with the
discovery of new taxa in the field and in museum collections. This has led to new characters …

Abstract The ichthyosaur genus Arthropterygius Maxwell, 2010 is considered as rare and
poorly known. However, considering the existing uncertainty regarding its position in respect …