A fragmentary leptonectid ichthyosaurian from the lower Pliensbachian of Luxembourg

peer reviewed ; Despite abundant fossils, the quality of the fossil record of Early Jurassic marine reptiles strongly fluctuates with time and space. Pliensbachian strata have yielded very few marine reptile remains, especially outside of England, obscuring the evolution of marine reptiles during the middle part of the Early Jurassic. We report a new Pliensbachian locality from Luxembourg that contains abundant marine fauna and ichthyosaurian remains likely representing a single individual, composed of a partial snout, a possible surangular, two centra, and several ribs and gastralia. Ammonite... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Fischer, Valentin
Laboury, Antoine
Bernacki, Kamil
Garbay, Laurent
Gillen, Yan
Rollinger, Charel
Thill, Anjin
Weis, Robert
Thuy, Ben
Dokumenttyp: journal article
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: Texas A. & M. University
Schlagwörter: Neoichthyosauria / Leptonectidae / Early Jurassic / Luxembourg-Trier / Physical / chemical / mathematical & earth Sciences / Earth sciences & physical geography / Life sciences / Zoology / Physique / chimie / mathématiques & sciences de la terre / Sciences de la terre & géographie physique / Sciences du vivant / Zoologie
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/293681

peer reviewed ; Despite abundant fossils, the quality of the fossil record of Early Jurassic marine reptiles strongly fluctuates with time and space. Pliensbachian strata have yielded very few marine reptile remains, especially outside of England, obscuring the evolution of marine reptiles during the middle part of the Early Jurassic. We report a new Pliensbachian locality from Luxembourg that contains abundant marine fauna and ichthyosaurian remains likely representing a single individual, composed of a partial snout, a possible surangular, two centra, and several ribs and gastralia. Ammonites and belemnites place this locality within the Valdani-Luridum Ammonite subzones of the Ibex Ammonite Zone, lower Pliensbachian. We assign the new ichthyosaur specimen to the clade Leptonectidae, using a combination of features from the snout and teeth. This specimen indicates that large neoichthyosaurians were present in multiple places of the European archipelago in all stages of the Early Jurassic and suggests that the ichthyosaurian faunae of western Europe remained essentially similar across the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian interval. ; Malgré d’abondants fossiles, la qualité de l’enregistrement fossile des reptiles marins du Jurassique inférieur fluctue largement à travers le temps et l’espace. Les strates pliensbachiennes ont fourni très peu de fossiles de reptiles marins, singulièrement hors d’Angleterre, occultant l’évolution des reptiles marins durant la partie centrale du Jurassique inférieur. Nous rapportons une nouvelle localité pliensbachienne au Luxembourg, contenant une faune marine abondante et des restes d’ichthyosaures représentant probablement un seul individu composé d’un museau partiel, un possible surangulaire, deux centra, ainis que plusieurs côtes et gastralia. Les ammonites et les bélemnites placent cette localité au sein des sous-zones à ammonites Valdini-Luridum, zone Ibex, Pliensbachien inférieur. Nous attribuons le nouveau specimen d’ichtyosaure au clade Leptonectidae, en utilisant une combination ...