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Leptonectes moorei

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Leptonectes moorei was named by McGowan and Milner (1999). Its type specimen is BMNH R14370, a partial skeleton (skull, fore paddles and anterior trunk), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Seatown, which is in a Pliensbachian offshore marl in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Leptonectes moorei McGowan pp. 761-768 figs. 1-4
1999Leptonectes moorei McGowan and Milner p. 761 figs. 1-4
2000Leptonectes moorei Maisch and Matzke p. 72
2003Leptonectes moorei McGowan and Motani
2010Leptonectes moorei Maisch
2016Leptonectes moorei Ji et al. p. 12

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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)
—Parvipelvia
—NeoichthyosauriaSander 2000
genusLeptonectesMcGowan 1996
speciesmoorei

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.

†Leptonectes moorei McGowan and Milner 1999
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke 2000"Small species, not exceeding 3 m in length, snout short."