Wahlisaurus
Extinct genus of reptiles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wahlisaurus is an extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur. The holotype was found in the Scunthorpe Mudstone in Nottinghamshire in 1951 and described in 2016 by Dean Lomax.[1] The type species is Wahlisaurus massare, and two specimens have been found: the first consisting of a skull and an incomplete skeleton, and the second a single coracoid.[2]
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Life reconstruction of the Wahlisaurus massare holotype individual | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
Family: | †Leptonectidae |
Genus: | †Wahlisaurus Lomax 2016 |
Type species | |
†Wahlisaurus massare Lomax, 2016 |
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