Sumpalla
| Sumpalla Temporal range: | |
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| Speculative life restoration | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | â Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | â Ophthalmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | â Platypterygiinae |
| Genus: | â Sumpalla Campos et al., 2021 |
| Species: | â S. argentina |
| Binomial name | |
| â Sumpalla argentina Campos et al., 2021 | |
Sumpalla is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs from the Late Jurassic Vaca Muerta Formation of Argentina. It contains a single species, Sumpalla argentina. The holotype was initially believed to have belonged to Aegirosaurus before being placed in a new genus in 2021.[1]
References
[edit]- â Campos, Lisandro; FernÃĄndez, Marta S.; Herrera, Yanina; Garrido, Alberto (2021). "Morphological disparity in the evolution of the ophthalmosaurid forefin: new clues from the Upper Jurassic of Argentina". Papers in Palaeontology. 7 (4): 1995â2020. Bibcode:2021PPal....7.1995C. doi:10.1002/spp2.1374. hdl:11336/152894. S2CIDÂ 237770509.
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