Muiscasaurus

Muiscasaurus
Temporal range: Barremian-Aptian
~130.0–112.6 Ma[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Sauropsida
Subclass:
Diapsida
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Family:
†Ophthalmosauridae
Genus:
†Muiscasaurus

Maxwell et al., 2015
Type species
†Muiscasaurus catheti
Maxwell et al., 2015

Muiscasaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur that lived in modern Colombia during the Early Cretaceous. The only known species is the type Muiscasaurus catheti.[2]

  1. ^ "Muiscasaurus at Fossilworks". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ Erin E. Maxwell; Daniel Dick; Santiago Padilla; Mary Luz Parra (2015). "A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia". Papers in Palaeontology. 2: 59–70. doi:10.1002/spp2.1030.