Cetarthrosaurus

Cetarthrosaurus Temporal range: Cretaceous, 99.6 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Node:	†Thunnosauria
Genus:	†Cetarthrosaurus Seeley, 1896
Species:	†C. walkeri
Binomial name
Cetarthrosaurus walkeri Seeley, 1896

Cetarthrosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur known from the eastern United Kingdom. It was collected from the Cambridge Greensand Formation, dating to late Albian or early Cenomanian stage, of the Early Cretaceous-Late Cretaceous boundary. Cetarthrosaurus was first named by Harry G. Seeley in 1896 and the type species is Cetarthrosaurus walkeri.^[1]

References

1. ^ Harry G. Seeley (1873). "On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 29: 505–507. 

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