Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous, 113–94.3 Ma
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Life restoration of M. lindoei giving birth
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Family:
†Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily:
†Platypterygiinae
Genus:
†Maiaspondylus Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Species
†Maiaspondylus lindoei Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
†Maiaspondylus cantabrigiensis (Lydekker, 1888)
Synonyms
"Ophthalmosaurus" cantabrigiensis Lydekker, 1888
"Platypterygius" ochevi Arkhangel'sky et al. 2008
Maiaspondylus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from Northwest Territories of Canada, the Cambridge Greensand of England and the Voronezh Region of Russia.[1][2]
^Maxwell, Erin E.; Caldwell, Michael W. (2006). "A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada". Palaeontology. 49 (5): 1043–1052. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00589.x.
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ago. All Maiaspondylus specimens were originally referred to Platypterygius. However, all recent cladistic analyses found that Maiaspondylus is a valid...
boundary including Acamptonectes, Sveltonectes, Caypullisaurus, and Maiaspondylus. In 2013, a Cretaceous basal thunnosaurian was revealed: Malawania....
in 2008 by Arkhangel'sky et al., was found to be a junior synonym of Maiaspondylus cantabrigiensis and in 2021 "Platypterygius" sachicarum was described...
Vitalii Ochev. In 2020, this naming was declared a junior synonym of Maiaspondylus cantabrigiensis. It was founded in 1894 near the Semiluki railway station...
2020, Nikolay Zverkov and Dmitry Grigoriev reassigned this species to Maiaspondylus. A large skull was discovered in the Kimmeridge Clay of Stowbridge,...
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