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Though fossils revealing ichthyosaur behavior remain rare, one ichthyosaur fossil is known to have sustained bites to the snout region. Discovered in Australia, and analyzed by Benjamin Kear et alii in 2011, measurements of the wounds reveal that the bite marks were inflicted by another ichthyosaur, likely of the same species, a probable case ...
Cast of the first known complete Ichthyosaurus specimen (originally referred to as Proteosaurus), which was destroyed during WW2. Ichthyosaurus was the first complete fossil to be discovered in the early 19th century by Mary Anning in England; [9] the holotype of I. communis, no coll. number given, [10] was a fairly complete specimen discovered by Mary and Joseph Anning around 1814 in Lyme ...
Ichthyopterygia ("fish flippers") was a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840 to designate the Jurassic ichthyosaurs that were known at the time, but the term is now used more often for both true Ichthyosauria and their more primitive early and middle Triassic ancestors.
No. of episodes: 12: Production; Executive producers: Andrew Waterworth Michael Stedman: Producer: Nick Bleszynski: Running time: 60 minutes (episodes 1-11) 120 minutes (episode 12) Original release; Network: Discovery Channel Animal Planet: Release: March 21 () – September 12, 2004 ()
The Ichthyosauromorpha are an extinct clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles consisting of the Ichthyosauriformes and the Hupehsuchia.. The node clade Ichthyosauromorpha was first defined by Ryosuke Motani et al. in 2014 as the group consisting of the last common ancestor of Ichthyosaurus communis and Hupehsuchus nanchangensis, and all its descendants.
Sharp Feathers: a male Unenlagia around 12 feet (3.7 m) long, He appears to devour an insect and is driven off a cliff by Long Tooth, Luckily though, somehow, he survived. Others: Tyrannosaurus: a male Tyrannosaurus rex killed by the comet crashing into Earth, he seems to be the first one of his kind killed by the impact.
Shonisaurus is a genus of very large ichthyosaurs.At least 37 incomplete fossil specimens of the type species, Shonisaurus popularis, have been found in the Luning Formation of Nevada, USA.
As an ichthyosaur, Thalattoarchon had flippers for limbs and a fin on the tail. The size of this large ichthyosaur is estimated around 8.6 meters (28 ft) long, although the authors are uncertain about the exact measurements. The animal has a long, slender body but with a proportionally large head and a straight, elongated tail.