We describe fragmentary ichthyosaur skull remains of a single individual recovered from Lower Jurassic marine strata in northern Chile. The preserved teeth display distinctive features such as a very long, robust and ...

Recent discovery of a skull and forefin of an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina, shows a peculiar morphology of the braincase and forefin, including the opening ...

Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs are well-known based on the abundant and exquisitely preserved European records of the Western Tethys. For example, faunas from Southern England and the Toarcian Posidonia shales of Holzmaden ...

Most of the Cretaceous ichthyosaurian materials are referable to the single genus Platypterygius, which includes seven species. Although Cretaceous ichthyosaurs were probably cosmopolitan in their distribution, South ...

The oldest ophthalmosaurian records worldwide have been recovered from the Aalenian-Bajocian boundary of the Neuquén Basin in Central-West Argentina (Mendoza and Neuquén provinces). Although scarce, they document a poorly ...