Leptonectes

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Leptonectes
Temporal range: Late Triassic - Early Jurassic, Rhaetian–Pliensbachian
File:Leptopterygius NHM.jpg
skeleton of Leptonectes tenuirostris (NHMUK PV R 498)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Ichthyosauria
Family: Leptonectidae
Genus: Leptonectes
McGowan, 1996[1]
Species
  • L. moorei McGowan and Milner, 1999[2]
  • L. solei (McGowan, 1993)
  • L. tenuirostris (Conybeare, 1822) (type species)
Synonyms

Leptopterygius Huene, 1929

File:Leptonectes tenuirostris, Lyme Regis, England, Early Jurassic - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC09972.JPG
L. tenuirostris, Royal Ontario Museum
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Life restoration

Leptonectes is a genus of ichthyosaur that lived in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic (Rhaetian - Pliensbachian). Fossils have been found in Belgium, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.[3][4][5] A possible specimen from Switzerland first reported in 2006,[6] has been reclassified as that of Hauffiopteryx.[7] The type species, L. tenuirostris, reached 4 metres (13 ft) long, whereas L. moorei (NHMUK PV R 14370) likely reached 3 metres (9.8 ft) long;[8] the largest species, L. solei, was approximately 5–6 metres (16–20 ft) long.[9][10]

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  4. ^ McGowan C, Motani R. 2003. Ichthyopterygia. – In: Sues, H.-D. (ed.): Handbook of Paleoherpetology, Part 8, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 175 pp., 101 figs., 19 plts; München
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  6. ^ Maisch MW, Reisdorf AG. 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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