Wahlisaurus
Sign in to saveWahlisaurus is an extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Scunthorpe Mudstone of England.' The type species is Wahlisaurus massarae''', and two specimens have been found: the first consisting of a skull and an incomplete skeleton, and the second a single coracoid.
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Wahlisaurus is an extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Scunthorpe Mudstone of England.' The type species is Wahlisaurus massarae', and two specimens have been found: the first consisting of a skull and an incomplete skeleton, and the second a single coracoid.
== Discovery == thumb|250px|left|Wahlisaurus massarae holotype The holotype specimen, LEICT G454.1951.5, was discovered in the Scunthorpe Mudstone, Barrow upon Soar, Nottinghamshire by Percy Faulkes, and it was donated to the New Walk Museum in Leicester when he died in 1951. Parts of the specimen were then sent on loan to Robert Appleby until he died in 2004, and they were subsequently returned back to the Museum.