Gengasaurus

Gengasaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Jurassic. The type and only species, Gengasaurus nicosiai, was named in 2017, after the locality of Genga, Marche.[1] It lived in Italy about 152 million years ago.

Gengasaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Reptilia
Order:
†Ichthyosauria
Family:
†Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily:
?†Ophthalmosaurinae
Genus:
†Gengasaurus

Parapella et al., 2017
Type species
†Gengasaurus nicosiai
Parapella et al., 2017

References
  1. Ilaria Paparella; Erin E. Maxwell; Angelo Cipriani; Scilla Roncacè; Michael W. Caldwell (2017). "The first ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Umbrian–Marchean Apennines (Marche, Central Italy)". Geological Magazine. 154 (4): 837–858. Bibcode:2017GeoM..154..837P. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000455.


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