Genus: Hauffiopteryx SCHOCH, 2008
Etymology: In honor of the Hauff family from Holzmaden, Germany, and Latin, pteryx, "wing."

Species: typicus SCHOCH, 2008
Etymology:
= Stenopterygius hauffianus forma typica HUENE, 1931
= Stenopterygius hauffianus mut. antecedens HUENE, 1931
= Stenopterygius crassicostatus mut. antecedens Huene, 1931
= Stenopterygius hauffianus HUENE, 1922 (partim)

Lectotype: GPIT 1491/4

Locality: Holzmaden, Wurttemberg, Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy: Lias & II, 1-5

Age: Upper Lias Epoch, Late Early Jurassic.

Material: Skull and skeleton.

Referred material:

ANTI, 1981

25517: Skull and skeleton.

McGOWAN, 1979

MHH 9: Skull.

SMNS 8664: Skull.

SMNH H05: Skull and skeleton.

GPIT 1491/2: Skull and skeleton.

GPIT 1491/1:

SCHOCH, 2008

WAT 1, M 1399, SMNS 51552, 80225, Außendem, SMNS 81965: Skulls and skeletons.

 

Locality: Strawberry Bank Quarry (now built over), north of the High Street, in an area called the Triangle, Ilminster, Somerset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostraitigraphy: Harpoceras faliciferum Zone.

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

Material:

BRLSI M1399: Partial juvenile skeleton with three-dimensional skull lacking tail beyond pelvic girdle and the ends of the pectoral and hind fins.

Note: Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Moore, 1866, Stenopterygius hauffianus McGowan, 1976, Hauffiopteryx typicus Caine & Benton, 2011, Maxwell & Cortes, 2020 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

BRLSI M1400: Partial post-cranial juvenile skeleton lacking multiple ribs, tip of tail, forefins, pelvic girdle and hind fins.

Note: Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Moore, 1866, Hauffiopteryx typicus Caine & Benton, 2011 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

BRLSI M1401: Partial three-dimensional skeleton and skull with three-dimensional skull lacking left side ribs, tip of tail, ends of forefins, pelvic girdle and hind fins.

Note: Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Moore, 1866, Stenopterygius hauffianus McGowan, 1976, Hauffiopteryx typicus Caine & Benton, 2011, Maxwell & Cortes, 2020 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

BRLSI M1403, M1404, M1406: Fragmentary skulls and skeletons.

Note: Ichthyosaurus acutirostris Moore, 1866, Hauffiopteryx typicus Caine & Benton, 2011 (from Weeden & Chapman, 2022).

 

DEEMING, HALSTEAD, MANABE & UNWIN, 1993

Locality: Germany.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

GPIT Hu. 1931S361: Intact.

GPIT Hu. 1931S391: Intact.

SMNS 15033: Intact.

 

GODEFROIT, 1994

Locality: Dudelange, Luxembourg.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

MNHL TU246: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

 

KLUG, 2024

= Leptonectes tenuirostris MAISCH & REISDORF, 2006

Locality: Claystone pit, Unterer Hauenstein, Solothurn, Switzerland.

Horizon: Müsenegg Bed, Breitenmatt Member, Stafflegg Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Pliensbachian Stage, Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.

Material:

NMO 26575: Skull and 10 thoracal vertebrae, neural arches, thoracal ribs adn a dfew pectoral fin elements.

Note: 5 possible bite marks on the supratemporal.

 

McGOWAN, 1979

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

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

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

Material:

Geology Museum, Bath, Somerset.

BRLSI M1401: Skull.

BRLSI M1405: Pelvic region.

BRLSI M1409: Skull missing the anterior tip and dorsal vertebrae and ribs.

 

Locality: Strawberry Bank Quarry (now built over), north of the High Street, in an area called the Triangle, Ilminster, Somerset County, England, Southern United Kingdom.

Horizon:

Biostraitigraphy: Harpoceras faliciferum Zone.

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

Material:

BRLSI M1399: Skull, left ischium and pubis and forefin.

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Species: altera MAXWELL & CORTES, 2020
Etymology: Latin, altera, "different from/other" inreference to the anatomical divergence from the type species, H. typicus.

Holotype: FWD-129

Locality: Dotternhausen-Dormettingen, Baden-Württemberg State, Germany.

Horizon: Posidonienschiefer Formation.

Biostratigraphy: exaratum subzone (SWGB: bedeII4/5), Serpentinum Zone.

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

Material: Skull and partioal postcranum.