referred to Platypterygius have been found throughout different continents, the holotype specimen was found in Germany. As Platypterygius contains multiple...

described as a subgenus of Platypterygius, but later work showed that it was sufficiently distinct from the type species of Platypterygius, P. platydactylus,...

it to be most closely related to "Platypterygius" americanus, which probably do not belong to the genus Platypterygius. Maiaspondylus was named by Erin...

scapular girdle. It was assigned to the genus Platypterygius in a 2008 article. Historically, the genus Platypterygius has been treated as a catch-all wastebasket...

1139/E10-028. Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 1998, On the Ichthyosaurian Genus Platypterygius: Palaeontological Journal, v. 32, n. 6, p. 611-615. Motani, Ryosuke;...

problem in ophthalmosaur taxonomy is presented by Platypterygius, with the type species Platypterygius platydactylus suffering from a description insufficient...

Acamptonectes and Mollesaurus. Aegirosaurus was found more closely related to Platypterygius, and thus does not belong to the Ophthalmosaurinae. The cladogram below...

synonymised with Platypterygius and was not mentioned in the 2024 reappraisal of the genus. McGowan (1972) synonymised M. hauthali with Platypterygius and created...

in Platypterygius americanus, but less than the 46 in Platypterygius australis and the 50 or more in Undorosaurus, Aegirosaurus, and Platypterygius platydactylus...

distribution. All fossils from this period were referred to a single genus: Platypterygius. This last ichthyosaur genus was thought to have become extinct early...