Wahlisaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Life reconstruction of the Wahlisaurus massarae holotype individual | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
Family: | †Leptonectidae |
Genus: | †Wahlisaurus Lomax, 2016 |
Type species | |
†Wahlisaurus massarae Lomax, 2016
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Wahlisaurus is an extinct genus of leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Scunthorpe Mudstone of England.[1] 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.[2]