Proteosaurus

Home 1819

Ichthyosaurus is a genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Europe. Some specimens of the ichthyosaurid Protoichthyosaurus from England and Switzerland have been erroneously referred to this genus in the past. It is among the best known ichthyosaur genera, as it is the type genus of the order Ichthyosauria.

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Plage temporelle

Trias

Jurassique

Crétacé

Paléogène

Néogène

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Occurrences PBDB

Groupe

Ichtyosaures

Carnivore nektonic Marin

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Classification

Ichthyosauria Clade non classé

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Proteosauridae Famille

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Proteosaurus Genre

Sites de découverte 6 sites géolocalisés

Répartition

Principaux pays

🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni

🇧🇪 Belgique

Formations géologiques

Blue Lias

Luxembourg

Distribution temporelle

Sinémurien (199.5–192.9 Ma)

Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)

Espèces (3)

Ichthyosaurus chiroligostinus subjective synonym of Proteosaurus platyodon 201 Ma

Ichthyosaurus lonchiodon subjective synonym of Proteosaurus platyodon 201 Ma

Proteosaurus platyodon 201 Ma

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Bibliographie

Description originale

E. Home. 1819. Reasons for giving the name Proteo-Saurus to the fossil skeleton which has been described. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 109:212-216

Bibliographie (3)

L. Dollo. 1909. The fossil vertebrates of Belgium. Annals of the New York Academy of Science 19(4):99-119 DOI ↗

T. Wright. 1860. On the Zone of Avicula contorta, and the Lower Lias of the South of England. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:374-411 DOI ↗

T. Hawkins. 1834. Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri, Extinct Monsters of the Ancient Earth