Platypterygiinae

Platypterygiines; Temporal range: Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	Caypullisaurus bonapartei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Family:	†Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily:	†Platypterygiinae; Arkhangelsky, 2001
Genera
	†Acuetzpalin; †Aegirosaurus; †Athabascasaurus; †Brachypterygius; †Caypullisaurus; †Grendelius; †Kyhytysuka; †Maiaspondylus; †Parrassaurus; †Pervushovisaurus; †Platypterygius; †Simbirskiasaurus; †Sisteronia; †Sumpalla; †Sveltonectes;

Platypterygiinae is an

tooth roots in cross-section, an extremely reduced extracondylar area of the basioccipital, prominent dorsal and ventral trochanters on humerus and ischiopubis lacking an obturator foramen.^[2]

Phylogeny

Platypterygiinae was named in

Ophthalmosaurus icenicus". The cladogram below follows Fischer et al. 2012.^[2]

Ophthalmosauridae

Arthropterygius chrisorum

Ophthalmosaurinae

Platypterygiinae

Brachypterygius extremus

Maiaspondylus lindoei

	Aegirosaurus leptospondylus

	Sveltonectes insolitus

"Platypterygius" hercynicus

Caypullisaurus bonapartei

	Athabascasaurus bitumineus

	"Platypterygius" australis (=Longirostria^[3] )

References

^ N. G. Zverkov, M. S. Arkhangelsky and I. M. Stenshin (2015). "A review of Russian Upper Jurassic ichthyosaurs with an intermedium/humeral contact. Reassessing Grendelius McGowan, 1976". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute 318(4): 558-588.
^
PMID 22235274
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^ Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 1998, On the Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius: Palaeontological Journal, v. 32, n. 6, p. 611-615.

[1] N. G. Zverkov, M. S. Arkhangelsky and I. M. Stenshin (2015). "A review of Russian Upper Jurassic ichthyosaurs with an intermedium/humeral contact. Reassessing Grendelius McGowan, 1976". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute 318(4): 558-588.

[Acamptonectes-2] 
PMID 22235274
.

[3] Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 1998, On the Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius: Palaeontological Journal, v. 32, n. 6, p. 611-615.

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