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Mollesaurus
Taxonomy
Mollesaurus was named by Fernandez (1999).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ophthalmosaurus by Maisch and Matzke (2000).
It was assigned to Stenopterygiinae by Fernandez (1999); to Ophthalmosauria by Druckenmiller and Maxwell (2010); to Ophthalmosauridae by McGowan and Motani (2003), Fischer et al. (2011), Fischer et al. (2013); and to Ophthalmosaurinae by Fischer et al. (2012), Arkhangelsky and Zverkov (2014), Robert et al. (2014).
It was synonymized subjectively with Ophthalmosaurus by Maisch and Matzke (2000).
It was assigned to Stenopterygiinae by Fernandez (1999); to Ophthalmosauria by Druckenmiller and Maxwell (2010); to Ophthalmosauridae by McGowan and Motani (2003), Fischer et al. (2011), Fischer et al. (2013); and to Ophthalmosaurinae by Fischer et al. (2012), Arkhangelsky and Zverkov (2014), Robert et al. (2014).
Species
Species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Mollesaurus Fernandez p. 677 |
| 2003 | Mollesaurus McGowan and Motani |
| 2010 | Mollesaurus Druckenmiller and Maxwell |
| 2011 | Mollesaurus Fischer et al. |
| 2012 | Mollesaurus Fischer et al. |
| 2013 | Mollesaurus Fischer et al. |
| 2014 | Mollesaurus Arkhangelsky and Zverkov |
| 2014 | Mollesaurus Robert et al. p. 22 fig. 15 |
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| M. S. Fernandez 1999 | "Large ichthyosaur. Differs from other members of the Family Ichthyosauridae in the following combination of characters: rostrum deep near the orbit, orbit large, postorbital region not narrow, basioccipital with a reduced extracondylar area and with two elongated and sightly concave areas placed symmetrically in the extracondylar area, nares elongate, maxillary very reduced in lateral view, teeth reduced" |
Measurements
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Age range: Early/Lower Bajocian or 171.60000 to 168.40000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Early/Lower Bajocian | Argentina (Neuquen) | M. periallus (102280) M. perihallus (140299) |