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Ichthyosaurus enthekiodon

Reptilia - Ichthyosauridae

Taxonomy
Ichthyosaurus enthekiodon was named by Hulke (1871). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kimmeridge Bay, Mansel collection, which is in a Kimmeridgian marine mudstone in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was corrected as Ichthyosaurus entheciodon by Lydekker (1889); it was misspelled as Ichthyosaurus entheciodon by Lydekker (1889); it was recombined as Nannopterygius enthekiodon by Delair (1960), McGowan (1976), McGowan and Motani (2003), Maisch (2010), Moon (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Ichthyosaurus enthekiodon Hulke pp. 30, 440-441 figs. Pl. 1
1889Ichthyosaurus entheciodon Lydekker
1960Nannopterygius enthekiodon Delair p. 74
1976Nannopterygius enthekiodon McGowan p. 671
2003Nannopterygius enthekiodon McGowan and Motani
2010Nannopterygius enthekiodon Maisch
2019Nannopterygius enthekiodon Moon pp. 30, 440

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
RankNameAuthor
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Ichthyosauromorpha
—Ichthyosauriformes
—Ichthyopterygia(Owen 1840)
—Eoichthyosauria
—Ichthyosauria(de Blainville 1835)
—Thunnosauria
familyIchthyosauridaeBonaparte 1841
genusIchthyosaurusKoenig 1818
speciesenthekiodon

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: hydroxyapatiteo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Reproduction: viviparouso
Created: 2009-07-20 06:07:40
Modified: 2010-02-23 00:20:57
Source: o = order
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian or 155.70000 to 150.80000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Kimmeridgian155.7 - 150.8United Kingdom (England) Ichthyosaurus enthekiodon (type locality: 119504)