Platypterygius
Videos
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 l
Restoration of P. australis
Opalized vertebral column assigned to an immature P. cf. longmani (a synonym of P. australis)
Skeleton of P. australis in Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Hupehsuchus
Ichthyosaurus
Videos
Ichthyosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Europe. Some specimens of the ichthyosaurid Protoichthyosaurus from England and Switzerland have been erroneously referred
Platypterygius
…Platypterygius was described in 1922 based on remains found in upper Aptian strata around Hannover, Germany that were previously described as a species of Ichthyosaurus (I. platydactylus) in 1907 by Ferdinand Broili. These remains however were not adequately described and to complicate matters further, destroyed during…
Ichthyosaurus BW
Ichthyosaurus communis in London
Cast of the first known complete Ichthyosaurus specimen (originally referred to as Proteosaurus), which was destroyed during World War 2
Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus breviceps