Parrassaurus
Parrassaurus is an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the late Jurassic La Caja Formation of Mexico named in 2021. Parrassaurus includes one species, Parrassaurus yacahuitztli. The type specimen (CPC 307) was around 5 metres (16 ft) long.
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| Fossil in Museo de la Evolución, Puebla. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Platypterygiinae |
| Genus: | †Parrassaurus Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega, 2021 |
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| †Parrassaurus yacahuitztli Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega, 2021
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Parrassaurus is an ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the late Jurassic La Caja Formation of Mexico named in 2021. Parrassaurus includes one species, Parrassaurus yacahuitztli.[1] The type specimen (CPC 307) was around 5 metres (16 ft) long.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Barrientos-Lara, J. I.; Alvarado-Ortega, J. (2021). "A new Tithonian ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from Coahuila in northeastern Mexico". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. in press. doi:10.1080/03115518.2021.1922755.
- ^ Marie–Céline Buchy; José Guadalupe López Oliva (2009). "Occurrence of a second ichthyosaur genus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) in the Late Jurassic Gulf of Mexico". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 62 (2): 233-238. Bibcode:2009BoSGM..61..233B. doi:10.18268/BSGM2009V61N2A11. ISSN 1405-3322. S2CID 54774650.
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