Kingdom Animalia Family †Ophthalmosauridae Scientific name Leninia Rank Genus | Class Reptilia Subfamily †Ophthalmosaurinae Phylum Chordata Order Ichthyosaur | |
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Similar Ichthyosaur, Acamptonectes, Malawania, Chacaicosaurus, Barracudasauroides | ||
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.
Phylogeny
Cladogram based in the phylogenetic analysis of Fischer et. al., 2013:
References
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