Species: longirostris MANTELL, 1851
Etymology: Latin, longirostris, "long snouted."
= Temnodontosaurus longirostris (MANTELL 1851) McGOWAN, 1974
= Ichthyosaurus longirostris MANTELL 1851
= Ichthyosaurus latifrons KÖNIG, 1889
= Leptopterygius latifrons HUENE 1922 (partim)
= Eurhinosaurus longirostris HUENE, 1922 (partim)

Holotype: NHMUK PV OR (old BMNH) 14566

Locality: Whitby, Yorkshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: H. bifrons or H. serpentinum biozone.

Age: Toarcian Stage, Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material: Skull.

Note: Ichthyosaurus longirostris Mantell, 1851, Own, 1881, Ichthyosaurus latifrons Lydekker, 1889, Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Woodward & Sherbonr, 1890, Temnodontosaurus longirostris McGown, 1974, Benton & Taylor, 1984, Eurhinosaurus longirostris (McGowan, 1989, 1994, Benton & Spencer, 1995, McGowan & Motani, 2003, Lomax, 2003 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

Referred material:

FRAAS, 1891

Locality: Holzmaden, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Skeleton.

GODEFROIT, 1994

Locality: Grandcourt, Dudelange, Luxembourg.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Toarcian Stage, Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material:

MMD 6: Fragmentary rostrum.

MNHNL TU112: Fragmentary skull.

 

HUENE

Locality: Ohmden, Holzmaden, Wurttemberg, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Skull and skeleton.

McGOWAN, 1979

BSPM 436: Skull and skeletons.

MNHP 1946-20: Skull and skeletons.

MHH 433, GPIT PJ 24361, FSF 432, SMNS 14931: Skulls and skeletons.

GPIT 440, SMNS 438: Skulls and fragmentary skeletons.

FSF 4155: Skeleton.

SMNS R4085: Fragmentary skull.

BMNH R3938: Skull and cervical vertebrae.

GPIT 439: Fragmentary skull.

PARDO-PEREZ, KEAR, GOMEZ, MORONI & MAXWELL, 2018

GPIT/RE/9412: Fragmentary specimen.

Note: With healed ribs 15-21, and 47.

McGOWAN, 1974

Locality: Barrow-on-Soar, Leichestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

NHMUK PV OR (old BMNH) 36182: Skull and skeleton.

Note; Ichthyosurus longirostris Owen, 1881, Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris Owen, 1881, Ichthyosaurus latifrons Lyedkker, 1889, Woodward & Sherborn, 1890, Leptopterygius latifrons Huene, 1922, Temnodontosaurus longirostris McGowan, 1974, Massare, 1988, Leptopterygous tenuirostris McGowan, 1898, 1994, Leptonectes tenuirostris McGowan & Milnar, 1999, McGowan, & Motani, 2003 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

Locality: Street, Somerset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

SCC1: Partial skull and imperfect pectoral.

 

Locality: Lyme Regis coast, Pinhay Bay- Charmouth, (SY 3291-SY 3794), Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hettangian-Pliensbachian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Early Jurassic.

Material:

BMNH R1120: A poorly preserved skeleton.

 

OWEN, 1865

Locality: Barrow-on-Soar, Leichestershire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Number: Not given: Skulls and fragmentary skeletons.

 

PATON, 1975

Locality: Lyme Regis coast, Pinhay Bay- Charmouth, (SY 3291-SY 3794), Dorset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Sinemurian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

RSM: 1 skull.

 

REISDORF, MAISCH & WETZEL, 2011

Locality: Claypit ca 200 m north of the Staffelegg-pass, Staffelegg, Canton Aargau, Switzerland.

Horizon: "Posidonienschiefer," Rietheim Member, Staffelegg Formation.

Biostratigraphy: Bifrons or Variabilis Zone.

Age: Toarcian Stage, Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

PIMUZ A/III0749: Fragmentary skull.

 

= Leptopterygius tenuirostris HUENE, 1922 non LYDEKKER, 1889
Etymology: Latin, tenuis, "narrow, thin" and Latin, rostris, "snout."

Locality: Whitby-Salwick, Yorkshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: H. bifrons or H. serpentinum biozone.

Age: Toarcian Stage, Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material:

NHMUK PV OR (old BMNH) 36876: Poorly preserved skull.

Note: Ichthyosaurus sp Lydekker, 1889, Eurhinosaurus longirostris Huene, 1922, McGowna, 1889, Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris? McGowan, 1974, Lomax, 2019, Leptopterygius actuirostris Benton & Taylor, 1984 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

Locality: Whitby, Yorkshire County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

Another specimen BMNH 36876: Fragmentary remains.

 

McGOWAN, 1990

Locality: Hozlmaden, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material:

SMNS 38/78: Unprepared skeleton.

 

= Eurhinosaurus huenei SWINTON, 1930
Etymology: In honor of Fredrich von Huene.
= Ichthyosaurus longirostris JAGER, 1856 non Ichthyosaurus longirostris MANTELL, 1948
Etymology:

Holotype: BMNH R5465
= Eurhinosaurus sp HUENE 1922

Locality: Holzmaden, Baden-Wurttemberg State, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material: Skull and skeleton.