Maiaspondylus

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.

Maiaspondylus
Temporal range: Early-Late Cretaceous,
Life restoration of M. lindoei giving birth
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Family: Ophthalmosauridae
Subfamily: Platypterygiinae
Genus: Maiaspondylus
Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Species:
M. lindoei
Binomial name
Maiaspondylus lindoei
Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Other species
  • M. cantabrigiensis Zverkov & Grigoriev, 2020
Synonyms
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