Classification
Sites de découverte 195 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
2
Aptien
(121.4–113.2 Ma)
1
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
4
Berriasien
(143.1–137.05 Ma)
1
Tithonien
(149.2–143.1 Ma)
8
Kimméridgien
(154.8–149.2 Ma)
8
Oxfordian
(161.5–154.8 Ma)
2
Callovien
(165.3–161.5 Ma)
6
Bajocien
(170.9–168.2 Ma)
1
Aalénien
(174.7–170.9 Ma)
5
Toarcien
(184.2–174.7 Ma)
66
Pliensbachien
(192.9–184.2 Ma)
19
Sinémurien
(199.5–192.9 Ma)
25
Hettangien
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
25
Rhétien
(205.7–201.4 Ma)
17
Norien
(227.3–205.7 Ma)
4
Olénékien
(249.9–246.7 Ma)
1
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Bibliographie
Description originale
M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2000. The Ichthyosauria. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Palaontologie) 298:1-159
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E. J. Swaby and D. R. Lomax. 2020. A revision of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK.
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D. R. Lomax. 2017. A new leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) of Nottinghamshire, England, UK, and the taxonomic usefulness of the ichthyosaurian coracoid. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15(5):387-401
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D. R. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2017. Two new species of Ichthyosaurus from the lowermost Jurassic (Hettangian) of Somerset, England. Papers in Palaeontology 3(1):1-20
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D. R. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2015. A new species of Ichthyosaurus from the Lower Jurassic of west Dorset, England, U.K. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e903260:1-14
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J. A. Massare and D. R. Lomax. 2013. An Ichthyosaurus breviceps collected by Mary Anning: new information on the species. Geological magazine
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P. Vincent, J. E. Martin, and V. Fischer, G. Suan, B. Khalloufi, B. Suchéras-Marx, A. Léna, K. Janneau, B. Rouselle, L. Rulleau. 2013. Marine vertebrate remains from the Toarcian–Aalenian succession of southern Beaujolais, Rhône, France. Geological Magazine
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S. P. Bennett, P. M. Barrett, and M. E. Collinson, S. Moore-Fay, P. G. Davis, C. P. Palmer. 2012. A new specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis from Dorset, UK, and its bearing on the stratigraphical range of the species. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 123:146-154
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D. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2012. The first reported Leptonectes (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) with associated embryos, from Somerset, England. Paludicola 8(4):263-267
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E. E. Maxwell, M. S. Fernández, and R. R. Schoch. 2012. First diagnostic marine reptile remains from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic): a new ichthyosaur from southwestern Germany. PLoS ONE 7(8):e41692
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H. Caine and M. J. Benton. 2011. Ichthyosauria from the Upper Lias of Strawberry Bank, England. Palaeontology 54(5):1069-1093
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M. W. Maisch and A. G. Reisdorf. 2006. Evidence for the longest stratigraphic range of a post-Triassic Ichthyosaur: a Leptonectes tenuirostris from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Switzerland. Geobios 39:491-505
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C. McGowan. 2003. A new specimen of Excalibosaurus from the English Lower Jurassic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(4):950-956
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