Stenopterygius was an ichthyosaur, a type of marine reptile. Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, despite living during the same era. Stenopterygius lived during the Early to Middle Jurassic, with fossils found in Europe.
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Stenopterygius was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- C. J. Duffin. 1997. The dentition of Hybodus hauffianus Fraas, 1895 (Toarcian, Early Jurassic). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 256:1-22
- C. McGowan. 1978. Further evidence for the wide geographical distribution of ichthyosaur taxa (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria). Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1155-1162
- D. Delsate and L. W. Candoni. 2001. Description de nouveaux morphotypes dentaires de Batomorphii toarciens (Jurassique inférieur) du Bassin de Paris: Archaeobatidae nov fam. Bull. Soc. Nat. Luxemb 102:131-143
