Delphinosaurus
Delphinosaurus is a dubious genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from Albian-Cenomanian deposits in the Kursk region of European Russia. Merriam (1905) erected "Delphinosaurus" for the Late Triassic ichthyosaur "Shastasaurus perrini" from California, but because "Delphinosaurus" was already in use, the replacement name "Californosaurus" was erected. Classification. Eichwald (1853) erected "Delphinosaurus" for eight mandible fragments, twelve teeth, one rib, two centra, one humerus and one epipodial from the iron-rich sands of the Kursk area dating to the Albian–Cenomanian boundary. He classified the remains as those of amphibians, because of the presence of dolphin and reptile features, suggesting an  intermediate form in between these groups, hence the name. Later, however, he recognized "Delphinosaurus" as being an ichthyosaur in an 1865 monograph. In the supplementary material for their paper explaining the extinction of ichthyosaurs, Fischer et al. (2016) treated "Delphinosaurus" as a dubious genus of ophthalmosaurid, raising the possibility that the hypodigm for "D. kiprijanoffi" is composite due to some teeth resembling "Sisteronia", and the humerus being morphologically distinct from "Sisteronia".