Ophthalmothule

{{Short description|Extinct genus of reptiles}}

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| fossil_range = Tithonian-Berriasian
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| image = Ophthalmothule-Fig-2-2x.jpg

| image_caption = Quarry map (A) and reconstruction (B) of holotype skeleton

| taxon = Ophthalmothule

| authority = Roberts et al., 2020

| type_species = {{extinct}}Ophthalmothule cryostea

| type_species_authority = Roberts et al., 2020

}}

Ophthalmothule (meaning "eye of the north"), was a cryptoclidid plesiosaur dating to the latest Volgian (around the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary), found in the Slottsmøya Member Lagerstätte of the Agardhfjellet Formation in Spitsbergen. The type species is O. cryostea.{{cite journal|last1=Roberts |first1=A.J. |last2=Druckenmiller |first2=P.S. |last3=Cordonnier |first3=B. |last4=Delsett |first4=L.L. |last5=Hurum |first5=J.H. |year=2020 |title=A new plesiosaurian from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transitional interval of the Slottsmøya Member (Volgian), with insights into the cranial anatomy of cryptoclidids using computed tomography |journal=PeerJ |volume=8 |page=e8652 |doi=10.7717/peerj.8652|pmid=32266112 |pmc=7120097 |doi-access=free }}