ichthyosaur
鱼龙,鱼龙类,鱼龙族,鱼龙类动物
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- : any fishlike marine reptile of the extinct order Ichthyosauria, ranging from 4 to 40 feet in length and having a round, tapering body, a large head, four paddlelike flippers, and a vertical caudal fin.
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Motani was part of a team that examined the nearly complete skeleton of an adult ichthyosaur.
In fact, this particular thalattosaur may have been such a big meal that the ichthyosaur died after eating it.
The researchers believe the ichthyosaur most likely hunted its meal.
In fact, this particular thalattosaur may have been such a big meal that the ichthyosaur died after stomaching it.
The ichthyosaur is thought to have been roughly seven times more massive than the whip-thin thalattosaur.
Buckland, I think, once indulged in the jeu d'esprit of supposing an ichthyosaur lecturing on the human skull.
It cannot concern me individually, any more than what happens to-day concerns the extinct ichthyosaur or the megatherium.
In the popular mind, perhaps, the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur are the typical representatives of that extinct race.
One fossilised Ichthyosaur of the weaker-toothed variety has been found with the remains of two hundred Belemnites in its stomach.
Compared with the Ichthyosaur, it was what the giraffe is to the rhinoceros, or the swan to the porpoise.