Undorosaurus

Undorosaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic,[1] 150.8–145.5 Ma
Recosntructed skeleton of U. gorodischensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Ichthyosauria
Family: †Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily: †Platypterygiinae
Genus: †Undorosaurus
Efimov, 1999
Type species
†Undorosaurus gorodischensis
(Efimov, 1999)
Other species
  • †U. nessovi Efimov, 1999
  • †U. trautscholdi Arkhangelsky & Zverkov, 2014[2]
  • †U. kielanae Zverkov & Efimov, 2019
Synonyms

Undorosaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur known from western Russia, Svalbard, and Poland.[1][4][2] It was a large ichthyosaur, with the type species measuring 4–6 metres (13–20 ft) long.[2]

  1. ^ a b "†Undorosaurus Efimov 1999". Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c M.S. Arkhangelsky & N.G. Zverkov (2014). "On a new ichthyosaur of the genus Undorosaurus" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 318 (3): 187–196.
  3. ^ Daniel Tyborowski (2016). "A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic of Owadów-Brzezinki Quarry, Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61 (4): 791–803. doi:10.4202/app.00252.2016.
  4. ^ Vladimir M. Efimov (1999). "A new family of Ichthyosaurs, the Undorosauridae fam. nov. from the Volgian stage of the European part of Russia". Paleontological Journal. 33 (2): 174–181.