Sentences with phrase «extinct ichthyosaurs»

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The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

Scientists in Britain have identified what they say is the world's oldest fossilized vomit — a collection of shells from an extinct squidlike creature swallowed long ago by an ichthyosaur.

The ichthyosaurs were a diverse group of aquatic reptiles that went extinct about 95 million years ago.

Ichthyosaurs went extinct about 90 million years ago while the others died out with the dinosaurs.

Organisms of interest include fossil and living squamates (snakes and lizards) as well as of extinct marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).