MAGALLANCES PROVINCE

TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK

FOUND ON A POLISHED TURBIDITE BED AT THE EDGE OF A CLIFF NEAR THE TYNDALL GLACIER

ZAPATA FORMATION

?LATEST TITHIONAN STAGE

UPPER MALM EPOCH

LATE JURASSIC-BERRIASIAN-HAUTERIVIAN STAGE

NEOCOMIAN SUBEPOCH

LOWER EARLY CRETACEOUS EPOCH

EARLY CRETACEOUS

STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930

SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866

CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768

SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1903

INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985

NEODIAPSIDA: INCERTAE SEDIS

OR AMNIOTA: INCERTAE SEDIS

MAGANORDER: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA BAUR, 1887 emend nova

SUPERORDER: EOICHTHYOSAURIA MOTANI, 1999

GRANDORDER: ICHTHYOSAURIA EMEND BLAINVILLE, 1835

MICRORDER: LONGIPINNATI HUENE, 1948

ORDER: MERRIAMOSAURIA MONTANI, 1999

SUBORDER: EUICHTHYOSAURIA MONTANI, 1999

INFRAORDER: PARVIPELVIA MONTANI, 1999

PARVORDER: NEOICHTHYOSAURIA SANDER, 2000

Superfamily: ICHTHYOSAUROIDEA Bonaparte, 1841 (Emend McGowan & Montani, 2003)

Family: STENOPTERYGIIDAE Jaekel, 1904

Platypterygius sp

Superfamily: OPHTHALMOSAURIDEA Seeley, 1874

Gen, sp indet,