Ichthyosaurus posthumus

{{Short description|Extinct species of reptile}} {{Italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = "Ichthyosaurus" ''posthumus'' | fossil_range = Late Jurassic, {{fossil_range|150.8}} | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Reptilia | ordo = {{extinct}}Ichthyosauria | familia = {{extinct}}Ichthyosauridae | genus = {{extinct}}"''Ichthyosaurus''" | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = *{{extinct}}'''"''Ichthyosaurus''" ''posthumus''''' Wagner, 1852 | synonyms = *''Ichthyosaurus trigonus posthumus'' (Wagner, 1852) *''Macropterygius posthumus'' (Wagner, 1852) }}

'''"Ichthyosaurus" ''posthumus''''' is a species of ichthyosaurs known from the Late Jurassic (early Tithonian age) Solnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany. Though several specimens have been referred to this species in the past, its type specimen consists only of isolated teeth that were destroyed during World War II, and it is today considered a ''nomen dubium''. The teeth almost certainly do not belong to ''Ichthyosaurus'' itself, which was a wastebin taxon at the time this species was named.<ref>Bardet N, Fernández M. (2000), "A new ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of Bavaria", ''Journal of Paleontology'' '''74''' (3): 503–511.</ref>

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Category:Fossil taxa described in 1852 Category:Ichthyosaurs of Europe Category:Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs Category:Solnhofen fauna Category:Nomina dubia