Species
Valid Extinct

Leptonectes tenuirostris

(Conybeare 1822)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
7
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Parvipelvia Unranked clade
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Neoichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Leptonectes Genus
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Leptonectes tenuirostris Species
Fossil sites 7 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
🇨🇭 Switzerland
1
🇧🇪 Belgium
1
Geological formations
Blue Lias
1
Ethe
1
Temporal distribution
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
4
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
1
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
2
Synonyms (1)
Ichthyosaurus strongylostinus subjective synonym of Leptonectes tenuirostris
Bibliography
Original description
W. D. Conybeare. 1822. Additional notices on the fossil genera Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus. Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Series 2 1:103-123 DOI ↗
Bibliography (5)
D. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2012. The first reported Leptonectes (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) with associated embryos, from Somerset, England. Paludicola 8(4):263-267
A. S. Smith and J. D. Radley. 2007. A marine reptile fauna from the Early Jurassic Saltford Shale (Blue Lias Formation) of Central England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 56(4):253-260 DOI ↗
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 DOI ↗
P. Godefroit. 1992. Présence de Leptopterygius tenuirostris (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) dans le Lias moyen de Lorraine belge. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 62:163-170
C. McGowan. 1989. Leptopterygius tenuirostris and other long-snouted ichthyosaurs from the English Lower Lias. Palaeontology 32(3):409-427