Genus
Valid Extinct

Maiaspondylus

Maxwell and Caldwell 2006

Maiaspondylus is an extinct genus of platypterygiine ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from Northwest Territories of Canada, the Cambridge Greensand of England and the Voronezh Region of Russia.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Maiaspondylus
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Baracromia Unranked clade
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Ophthalmosauridae Family
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Platypterygiinae Subfamily
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Maiaspondylus Genus
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇦 Canada
1
Geological formations
Loon River
1
Temporal distribution
Albian (113.2–100.5 Ma)
1
Species (1)
Maiaspondylus lindoei 110 Ma
Images 1
Bibliography
Original description
E. E. Maxwell and M. W. Caldwell. 2006. A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada. Palaeontology 49(5):1043-1052 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
E. E. Maxwell and M. W. Caldwell. 2006. A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada. Palaeontology 49(5):1043-1052 DOI ↗