Leptonectes
Sign in to savethumb|right|L. tenuirostris, Royal Ontario Museum thumb|right|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. A possible specimen from Switzerland first reported in 2006, has been reclassified as that of Hauffiopteryx. The type species, L. tenuirostris, reached long, whereas L. moorei (NHMUK PV R 14370) likely reached long; the largest species, L. solei, was approximately long.
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Vinony files it under Early Jurassic extinctions, Early Jurassic ichthyosaurs and Fossil taxa described in 1822.
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- Parent taxon
- Leptonectidae
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- Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris.jpg
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- Leptonectes
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- United Kingdom
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thumb|right|L. tenuirostris, Royal Ontario Museum thumb|right|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. A possible specimen from Switzerland first reported in 2006, has been reclassified as that of Hauffiopteryx. The type species, L. tenuirostris, reached long, whereas L. moorei (NHMUK PV R 14370) likely reached long; the largest species, L. solei, was approximately long.
==See also== List of ichthyosaurs Timeline of ichthyosaur research
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