Species
Valid Extinct

Aegirosaurus leptospondylus

(Wagner 1853)

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
2
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Baracromia Unranked clade
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Ophthalmosauridae Family
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Platypterygiinae Subfamily
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Aegirosaurus Genus
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Aegirosaurus leptospondylus Species
Fossil sites 2 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇩🇪 Germany
2
Geological formations
Solnhofen
2
Temporal distribution
Tithonian (149.2–143.1 Ma)
2
Synonyms (3)
Ichthyosaurus trigonus posthumus nomen dubium, subspecies not entered Aegirosaurus leptospondylus
Macropterygius posthumus subjective synonym of Aegirosaurus leptospondylus
Macropterygius trigonus subjective synonym of Aegirosaurus leptospondylus
Bibliography
Original description
M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2000. The Ichthyosauria. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Palaontologie) 298:1-159
Bibliography (1)
N. Bardet and M. Fernandez. 2000. A new ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of Bavaria. Journal of Paleontology 74(3):503-511 DOI ↗