Species
Valid Extinct

Ichthyosaurus somersetensis

Lomax and Massare 2017

No Wikipedia summary available.

Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
1
Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Parvipelvia Unranked clade
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Neoichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Thunnosauria Unranked clade
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Ichthyosauridae Family
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Ichthyosaurus Genus
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Ichthyosaurus somersetensis Species
Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1
Geological formations
Blue Lias
1
Temporal distribution
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Synonyms (1)
Ichthyosaurus paramecostinus replaced by Ichthyosaurus somersetensis
Bibliography
Original description
D. R. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2017. Two new species of Ichthyosaurus from the lowermost Jurassic (Hettangian) of Somerset, England. Papers in Palaeontology 3(1):1-20 DOI ↗
Bibliography (1)
D. R. Lomax and J. A. Massare. 2017. Two new species of Ichthyosaurus from the lowermost Jurassic (Hettangian) of Somerset, England. Papers in Palaeontology 3(1):1-20 DOI ↗