Platypterygius
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Platypterygius | |
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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 | |
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