ichthyosaur|ichthyosaures in English
noun
ichthyosaurus, any one of the extinct gigantic aquatic reptile with short and biconcave vertebrae
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1. 12 Fossil forensics has now identified the most likely culprit: another ichthyosaur.
2. Actiosaurus was originally described as a dinosaur in 1883 and was reinterpreted as an ichthyosaur in 1908.
3. Using cluster and principal coordinates analyses, G. mordax was found to have closest phenetic affinities with Platypterygius americanus (Nace) of the North American Cretaceous, and with an undescribed ichthyosaur from the Middle Triassic of Switzerland, and least phenetic affinity with Ophthalmosaurus discus (Marsh).
4. The Upper Carnian-Lower Norian (Upper Triassic) Luning Formation at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (BISP) in central NV (USA) has been sampled using for the first time the bed-by-bed approach for ammonoids, pelagic bivalves, and conodonts, more than 60 years after its first description by Silberling (U.S.