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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Jabalisaurus Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021 |
| Species: | †J. meztli
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| †Jabalisaurus meztli Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021
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Jabalisaurus is an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic La Caja Formation of Mexico. It contains a single species, Jabalisaurus meztli.[1]
It was initially identified as a specimen of a Ophthalmosaurus cf. icenus.[2]
- ^ Barrientos-Lara, Jair Israel; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (2021-11-01). "A new ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Kimmeridgian deposits of the La Casita Formation, near Gómez Farías, Coahuila, northern Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 111: 103499. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11103499B. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103499. ISSN 0895-9811.
- ^ Buchy, M.-C. 2010. "First record of Ophthalmosaurus (Reptilia, ichthyosauria) from the Tithonian (upper jurassic) of Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 84(1): 149–155