ichthyosaurs in English
They included the great marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, but also smaller creatures such as ammonites and belemnites - the precursor's of today's squid.
Use "ichthyosaurs" in a sentence
1. In the oceans, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and ammonites were abundant.
2. Their prey may have included fish, sharks, ichthyosaurs, dinosaurs and other plesiosaurs.
3. It is also thought that the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs survived largely on Belemnites.
4. Ichthyosaurs and other contemporary viviparous species, by contrast, gave birth to multiple offspring.
5. Predators of adult Belemnites were sharks, bony fishes, ichthyosaurs, and other marine reptiles as inferred from stomach contents and pathologies.
6. Archosaur: 1 n group of extinct reptiles including dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts Synonyms: Archosaurian , Archosaurian reptile Types: show 16 types hide 16 types dinosaur any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era flying reptile , pterosaur an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and
7. The first ichthyosaurs from the upper Lower Triassic (Spathian) already show a suite of unique characters (very large eyes, elongate snout, deeply amphicoelous vertebrae, limb modified to fins) correlated with a fully aquatic existence and probably were unable to leave the water.