Temporal range: Late Aptian-Late Cenomanian 113–93.9 Ma
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Assigned P. australis specimen
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Family:
†Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily:
†Platypterygiinae
Genus:
†Platypterygius von Huene, 1922
Type species
†Ichthyosaurus platydactylus
Broilli 1907
Other species
†P. americanus (Nace, 1939)
†P. australis (McCoy, 1867)
†P. hercynicus Kuhn, 1946
Platypterygius is a historically paraphyletic genus of platypterygiine ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous period. It was historically used as a wastebasket taxon, and most species within Platypterygius likely are undiagnostic at the genus or species level, or represent distinct genera, even being argued as invalid.[1] While fossils referred to Platypterygius have been found throughout different continents, the holotype specimen was found in Germany.
^Fischer, V.; Masure, E.; Arkhangelsky, M.S.; Godefroit, P. (2011). "A New Barremian (Early Cretaceous) Ichthyosaur From Western Russia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 1010–1025. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31.1010F. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595464. hdl:2268/92828. S2CID 86036325.
referred to Platypterygius have been found throughout different continents, the holotype specimen was found in Germany. As Platypterygius contains multiple...
described as a subgenus of Platypterygius, but later work showed that it was sufficiently distinct from the type species of Platypterygius, P. platydactylus,...
problem in ophthalmosaur taxonomy is presented by Platypterygius, with the type species Platypterygius platydactylus suffering from a description insufficient...
it to be most closely related to "Platypterygius" americanus, which probably do not belong to the genus Platypterygius. Maiaspondylus was named by Erin...
1139/E10-028. Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 1998, On the Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius: Palaeontological Journal, v. 32, n. 6, p. 611-615. Motani, Ryosuke;...
scapular girdle. It was assigned to the genus Platypterygius in a 2008 article. Historically, the genus Platypterygius has been treated as a catch-all wastebasket...
Acamptonectes and Mollesaurus. Aegirosaurus was found more closely related to Platypterygius, and thus does not belong to the Ophthalmosaurinae. The cladogram below...
synonymised with Platypterygius and was not mentioned in the 2024 reappraisal of the genus. McGowan (1972) synonymised M. hauthali with Platypterygius and created...
distribution. All fossils from this period were referred to a single genus: Platypterygius. This last ichthyosaur genus was thought to have become extinct early...
in Platypterygius americanus, but less than the 46 in Platypterygius australis and the 50 or more in Undorosaurus, Aegirosaurus, and Platypterygius platydactylus...
in Platypterygius americanus, but less than the 46 in Platypterygius australis and the 50 or more in Cryopterygius, Aegirosaurus, and Platypterygius platydactylus...
Ophthalmosauridae, Ophthalmosaurinae and Platypterygiinae. Ophthalmosaurus and Platypterygius were found to be non-monophyletic. Ophthalmosauridae was characterized...
related to Platypterygius and Brachypterygius. In 2012, Caypullisaurus was found to be most closely related to Athabascasaurus and "Platypterygius" australis...
1139/E10-028. Arkhangelsky M. S. (1998). "On the Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius". Paleontological Journal. 32 (6): 611–615. Böttcher R (1989). "Über...
for the first time by Fischer et al. (2012) as "all taxa closer to Platypterygius hercynicus than to Ophthalmosaurus icenicus". The cladogram below follows...
ophthalmosaurid lineage that included Brachypterygius, Caypullisaurus and Platypterygius (but not Ophthalmosaurus). Valentin Fischer, Michael W. Maisch, Darren...
species as phylogenetically distant from species belonging to the genus Platypterygius, and consider Myobradypterygius to be a distinct genus. A study on tooth...
ichthyosaurs (e.g. Ophthalmosaurus). Brachypterygius is closely related to Platypterygius and Caypullisaurus. Owen (1840) erected Ichthyosaurus trigonus based...
the larger specimen. In the same formation the fossil ichthyosaurs Platypterygius sachicarum and Muiscasaurus catheti and the brachiosaur Padillasaurus...
the Volga. In 1999, Maxim Arkhangel'skii synonymized the genus with Platypterygius, as did Michael Maisch and Andreas Matzke in 2000.: 82 While agreeing...
striations, whereas in similar ichthyosaurs as Pervushovisaurus and Platypterygius had more robust teeth and grooves in the enamel. Muiscasaurus was described...
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