Leptonectes was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Leptonectes lived during the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic, with fossils found in Europe.
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Leptonectes was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- A. S. Smith and J. D. Radley. 2007. A marine reptile fauna from the Early Jurassic Saltford Shale (Blue Lias Formation) of Central England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 56(4):253-260
- C. McGowan and A. C. Milner. 1999. A new Pliensbachian Ichthyosaur from Dorset, England. Palaeontology 42(5):761-768
- C. McGowan. 1989. Leptopterygius tenuirostris and other long-snouted ichthyosaurs from the English Lower Lias. Palaeontology 32(3):409-427
