Biology:Plutonisaurus
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| Plutonisaurus Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 135-130 Ma
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| Genus: | Plutonisaurus Efimov, 1997
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Plutonisaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Early Cretaceous (late Hauterivian) of the vicinity of Ulyanovsk, European Russia. The holotype is UPM 2/740, a partial skeleton.[1]
Plutonisaurus is possibly the same species as the nearly coeval Simbirskiasaurus.[2]
See also
- List of ichthyosaurs
- Timeline of ichthyosaur research
References
- ↑ Storrs, G. W., M. S. Arkhangel'skii and V. M. Efimov. 2000. Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics. pages 187-210 In Benton, M. J., M. A. Shiskin, D. M. Unwin and E. N. Kurochkin, (eds.), The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
- ↑ Valentin Fischer et al. 2016. Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility. Nature Communications 7, article number: 10825; doi: 10.1038/ncomms10825
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