Wahlisaurus
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. 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.
| Wahlisaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic, | |
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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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