Pervushovisaurus is a genus of platypterygiine ichthyosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Melovatka Formation in the Saratov region in western Russia, the La Penthiève Beds of France and the Cambridge area of the UK.
Pervushovisaurus is a genus of platypterygiine ichthyosaur from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Melovatka Formation in the Saratov region in western Russia, the La Penthiève Beds of France and the Cambridge area of the UK.
==History== thumb|left|Rostra assigned to P. campylodon It was originally described as a subgenus of Platypterygius, but later work showed that it was sufficiently distinct from the type species of Platypterygius, P. platydactylus, to be elevated to full generic rank. The type species of Pervushovisaurus, P. bannovkensis, is known only from the holotype, SSU 104a/24, a partial skull. In 2016, an additional species of Platypterygius from England and France, P. campylodon, was also referred to Pervushovisaurus after previously being allied with Ichthyosaurus in 1846. A previous Russian species of Platypterygius, "P." kiprianoffi, was also assigned to P. campylodon.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).