Ichthyosaurus posthumus

"Ichthyosaurus" posthumus; Temporal range: Late Jurassic, 150.8 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Genus:	†"Ichthyosaurus"; De la Beche & Conybeare, 1821
Species
	†"Ichthyosaurus" posthumus ; Wagner, 1852;
Synonyms
	Ichthyosaurus trigonus posthumus ; (Wagner, 1852); Macropterygius posthumus ; (Wagner, 1852);

"Ichthyosaurus" posthumus is a species of ichthyosaurs known from the Late Jurassic (early Tithonian age) Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany. Though several specimens have been referred to this species in the past, its type specimen consists only of isolated teeth that were destroyed during World War II, and it is today considered a nomen dubium. The teeth almost certainly do not belong to Ichthyosaurus itself, which was a wastebin taxon at the time this species was named.^[1]

References

^ Bardet N, Fernández M. (2000), "A new ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of Bavaria", Journal of Paleontology 74 (3): 503–511.

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