Biology:Plutonisaurus

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Plutonisaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 135-130 Ma
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Plutonisaurus

Efimov, 1997
Species
  • P. bedengensis Efimov, 1997 (Type)

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

References

  1. 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.
  2. 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