| Delphinosaurus Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous,
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| Genus: | †Delphinosaurus Eichwald, 1853
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| †Delphinosaurus kiprijanoffi Eichwald, 1853
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Delphinosaurus is a dubious genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from Albian-Cenomanian deposits in the Kursk region of European Russia.
Merriam (1905) erected Delphinosaurus for the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Shastasaurus perrini from California, but because Delphinosaurus was already in use, the replacement name Californosaurus was erected.[1]