ammonites
Ophthalmosaurus cantabrigiensis Lydekker 1888 (ichthyosaur)

Vertebrata - Cotylosauria - Ophthalmosauridae

Full reference: R. Lydekker. 1888. Note on the classificaiton of the Ichthyopterygia (with a notice of two new species). Geological Magazine 5(7):309-314

Belongs to Ophthalmosaurus according to C. W. Gilmore 1905

Sister taxa: Ophthalmosaurus discus, Ophthalmosaurus icenicus, Ophthalmosaurus monocharactus, Ophthalmosaurus natans, Ophthalmosaurus pleydelli, Ophthalmosaurus saveljeviensis, Ophthalmosaurus undorensis, Ophthalmosaurus yasykovi, Khudiakovia calloviensis, Ancanamunia mollensis

Type specimen: BMNH 43989, a limb element (right humerus). Its type locality is Cambridge Greensand [non-specific locality data], which is in an Albian open shallow subtidal marl in the Cambridge Greensand Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: nektonic carnivore