Suevoleviathan
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Suevoleviathan is an extinct genus of ichthyosaur, found in the Early Jurassic, Toarcian, of Holzmaden, Germany.[1]
The genus was named in 1998 by Michael Maisch.[2] The generic name means "Swabian Leviathan". The type species is Leptopterygius disinteger Huene 1926. Ichthyosaurus integer Bronn 1844 was by Maisch renamed Suevoleviathan integer.
Suevoleviathan was about four metres long.
References
- ^ Swimming styles in Jurassic Ichthyosaurs Emily A. Buchholtz. Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481 (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology).
- ^ Maisch, W.A., 1998, "A new ichthyosaur genus from the Posidonia Shale (Lower Toarcian, Jurassic) of Holzmaden, SW-Germany with comments on the phylogeny of post-Triassic ichthyosaurs", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 209: 47–78
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