ichthyosaur

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• Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
• More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
• Polyzoa and the pedicellariæ of Echinoderms, between Ichthyosauria and On the Genesis of Species
• More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
• Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, but represent a separate group of marine vertebrates.
• The earliest ichthyosaurs had long, flexible bodies and probably swam by undulating, like living eels.
• Certain living marine animals - the speedy, open-water dolphins, lamnid sharks [Great white and relatives] and scombroid fishes [the tuna-mackerel group] - possess the ichthyosaur body shape and surely move in an ichthyosaur-like way. Archive 2006-09-01
• Articulated ichthyosaurs demonstrate that the pectoral girdle was a robust construction with vertical clavicles [collar bones] and scapulae [shoulder blades], so there was a firm base for the articulation of powerful forefins and their musculature. Archive 2006-09-01
• Among Vertebrates there is no ordinally distinct fossil fish: there is only one extinct order of Amphibia — the Labyrinthodonts; but there are at least four distinct orders of Reptilia, viz. the Ichthyosauria, Essays
• All too often books written for a popular audience include animals such as mammoths, mastodons, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and the sail-backed Dimetrodon.