Ophthalmosaurus was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Ophthalmosaurus lived during the Middle to Late Jurassic, with fossils found in Europe, North America and South America.
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Ophthalmosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- C. Rusconi. 1940. Nueva especie de ictiosaurio del Jurásico de Mendoza [New species of ichthyosaur from the Jurassic of Mendoza]. Boletin Paleontológico de Buenos Aires 11:1-4
- C. W. Gilmore. 1905. Osteology of Baptanodon (Marsh). Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 2(2):77-129
- C. W. Gilmore. 1907. A new species of Baptanodon from the Jurassic of Wyoming. The American Journal of Science, series 4 23(135):193-198
