Maiaspondylus

Maiaspondylus
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 113–94.3 Ma
Life restoration of M. lindoei giving birth
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Family: Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily: Platypterygiinae
Genus: Maiaspondylus
Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Species
  • Maiaspondylus cantabrigiensis Zverkov & Grigoriev, 2020
  • Maiaspondylus lindoei Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Synonyms

Maiaspondylus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from Northwest Territories of Canada, the Cambridge Greensand of England and the Voronezh Region of Russia.[1][2]

  1. ^ Maxwell, Erin E.; Caldwell, Michael W. (2006). "A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 1043–1052. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00589.x.
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