| Kyhytysuka | |
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| Skull of K. sachicarum in the Paleontological Museum in Villa de Leyva, Colombia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Node: | †Ophthalmosauria |
| Genus: | †Kyhytysuka Cortés et al., 2021 |
| Type species | |
| Kyhytysuka sachicarum (Páramo, 1997)
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Kyhytysuka (IPA: [kɨhɨtɨˈsuka][1]) is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurian ichthyosaur from Early Cretaceous Colombia. The animal was previously assigned to the genus Platypterygius, but given its own genus in 2021. Kyhytysuka was a mid-sized ophthalmosaurian with heterodont dentition and several adaptations suggesting that it was a macropredatory vertebrate hunter living in shallow waters. It contains a single species, Kyhytysuka sachicarum.[2]
- ^ "Phonetic transcription of Kyhytysuka, the first Cretaceous hypercarnivorous ichthyosaur". YouTube. 22 November 2021.
- '^ Cortés, D.; Maxwell, E.E.; Larsson, H.C.E. (2021). "Re-appearance of hypercarnivore ichthyosaurs in the Cretaceous with differentiated dentition: revision of Platypterygius' sachicarum (Reptilia:Ichthyosauria, Ophthalmosauridae) from Colombia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (14): 1–34. Bibcode:2021JSPal..19..969C. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1989507. S2CID 244512087.