Jabalisaurus
| Jabalisaurus Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Genus: | †Jabalisaurus Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021 |
| Species: | †J. meztli |
| Binomial name | |
| †Jabalisaurus meztli Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021 | |
Jabalisaurus is an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic La Casita Formation of Mexico. It contains a single species, Jabalisaurus meztli.[1]
It was initially identified as a specimen of a Ophthalmosaurus cf. icenicus.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Barrientos-Lara, Jair Israel; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (2021-11-01). "A new ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Kimmeridgian deposits of the La Casita Formation, near Gómez Farías, Coahuila, northern Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 111 103499. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11103499B. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103499. ISSN 0895-9811.
- ↑ Buchy, M.-C. 2010. "First record of Ophthalmosaurus (Reptilia, ichthyosauria) from the Tithonian (upper jurassic) of Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 84(1): 149–155
