| Wahlisaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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| Life reconstruction of the Wahlisaurus massarae holotype individual | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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]
- ^ Lomax, Dean R. (2017). "A new leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) of Nottinghamshire, England, UK, and the taxonomic usefulness of the ichthyosaurian coracoid". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (5): 1–15. Bibcode:2017JSPal..15..387L. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1183149. S2CID 88578965.
- ^ Lomax, Dean R.; Evans, Mark & Carpenter, Simon (2019). "An ichthyosaur from the UK Triassic-Jurassic boundary: A second specimen of the leptonectid ichthyosaur Wahlisaurus massarae Lomax 2016". Geological Journal. 54 (1): 83–90. Bibcode:2019GeolJ..54...83L. doi:10.1002/gj.3155.