| Myobradypterygius Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Myobradypterygius von Huene, 1927 |
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| †Myobradypterygius hauthali von Huene, 1927
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Myobradypterygius is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Hauterivian) of Argentina[1] and possibly also Chile.[2] One species is known, M. hauthali,[3] which was once believed to have been a species of Platypterygius.[4]
- ^ Campos, L.; Fernández, M. S.; Bosio, V.; Herrera, Y.; Manzo, A. (2024). "Revalidation of Myobradypterygius hauthali Huene, 1927 and the phylogenetic signal within the ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) forefins". Cretaceous Research. 157. 105818. Bibcode:2024CrRes.15705818C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105818.
- ^ Stinnesbeck, W.; Frey, E.; Rivas, L.; Perez, J. P.; Cartes, M. L.; Soto, C. S.; Lobos, P. Z. (2014-05-22). "A Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur graveyard in deep marine slope channel deposits at Torres del Paine National Park, southern Chile". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 126 (9–10): 1317–1339. Bibcode:2014GSAB..126.1317S. doi:10.1130/b30964.1. ISSN 0016-7606.
- ^ Huene, F. von. (1927). Beitrag zur Kenntnis mariner mesozoischer Wirbeltiere in Argentinien. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, B 1927:22-29.
- ^ McGowan, C. (1972). The systematics of Cretaceous ichthyosaurs with particuliar reference to the material from North America. Contributions to Geology. 1972;11:9–29.