The Dinosaur Dave<p>This weeks <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Lego" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lego</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> is <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Aegirosaurus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Aegirosaurus</span></a> </p><p>In the mid 1800s, a marine reptile fossil was found in Bavaria, Germany by Dr. Oberndorfer.</p><p>In 1853, Dr. Johann Andreas Wagner named the "the Oberndorfer specimen", Ichthyosaurus leptospondylus</p><p>During WW2 the holotype was destroyed during a bombing raid.</p><p>In 2000, Nathalie Bardet and Marta Fernandez named a neotype from a private collection. They renamed the species Aegirosaurus leptospondylus</p>