Leninia
| Leninia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous, 119–113Ma | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | †Ichthyosauria |
| Family: | †Ophthalmosauridae |
| Subfamily: | †Ophthalmosaurinae |
| Genus: | †Leninia Fischer et al., 2013 |
| Type species | |
| †Leninia stellans Fischer et al., 2013 | |
Leninia is an extinct genus of basal ophthalmosaurine ichthyosaur known from the late Early Cretaceous (lower Aptian stage) of western Russia. Leninia was first named by Valentin Fischer, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Gleb N. Uspensky, Ilya M. Stenshin and Pascal Godefroit in 2013 and the type species is Leninia stellans.[1]
Phylogeny
Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis of Fischer et. al., 2013:[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Fischer, V.; Arkhangelsky, M. S.; Uspensky, G. N.; Stenshin, I. M.; Godefroit, P. (2013). "A new Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaur from Russia reveals skull shape conservatism within Ophthalmosaurinae". Geological Magazine: 1. doi:10.1017/S0016756812000994.
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