Maiaspondylus

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
  • Maiaspondylus cantabrigiensis Zverkov & Grigoriev, 2020
  • Maiaspondylus lindoei Maxwell & Caldwell, 2006
Synonyms

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.