Jabalisaurus

Jabalisaurus
Temporal range: Late Jurassic
Holotype specimen of J. tethyensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: †Ichthyosauria
Family: †Ophthalmosauridae
Genus: †Jabalisaurus
Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021
Type species
†Jabalisaurus meztli
Barrientos-Lara & Alvarado-Ortega, 2021
Other species
  • †Jabalisaurus tethyensis
    Maxwell et al., 2026

Jabalisaurus is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs known from Late Jurassic rocks of Mexico and Germany. The genus contains two species. The type species, Jabalisaurus meztli, was described in 2021 based on a single specimen from the La Casita Formation of Mexico. It had initially been identified as Ophthalmosaurus cf. icenicus. A second species, Jabalisaurus tethyensis, was described in 2026 based on three specimens from the Altmühltal Formation of Germany. One of these, JME-SOS-08369, is a complete, articulated skeleton encased in soft tissue. It was described previously in 2022 and identified as Aegirosaurus sp.

References

  1. ↑ Barrientos-Lara, Jair Israel; Alvarado-Ortega, Jesús (2021-11-01). "A new ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Kimmeridgian deposits of the La Casita Formation, near Gómez Farías, Coahuila, northern Mexico". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 111 103499. Bibcode:2021JSAES.11103499B. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103499. ISSN 0895-9811.
  2. ↑ Buchy, M.-C. 2010. "First record of Ophthalmosaurus (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 84(1): 149–155
  3. ↑ Maxwell, E. E.; Neumann, J.; Serafini, G. (2026). "Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs from southern Germany". Palaeontologia Electronica. 29 (2) 29.2.a30. doi:10.26879/1676.
  4. ↑ Delsett, Lene L.; Friis, Henrik; Kölbl-Ebert, Martina; Hurum, Jørn H. (April 7, 2022). "The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago". PeerJ. 10 e13173. doi:10.7717/peerj.13173. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8995021. PMID 35415019.