Sentences with phrase «like ichthyosaurs»

All other marine reptiles, apart from the dolphin - like ichthyosaurs, died out.

But before whales evolved, reptiles such as the dolphin - like ichthyosaurs ruled the oceans.

They found similarities between the new specimen and S. sikanniensis which suggest the Lilstock specimen belongs to a giant shastasaurid - like ichthyosaur.

Not exact matches

Paul said «Initially, the bone just looked like a piece of rock but, after recognising a groove and bone structure, I thought it might be part of a jaw from an ichthyosaur and immediately contacted ichthyosaur experts Dean Lomax (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) who expressed interest in studying the specimen.

Baby ichthyosaurs like the one illustrated here may have noshed on squid, a new analysis of a museum fossil suggests.

«First Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil found in India: The fish - like reptile was over five - meter long, likely ate ammonites and other crunchy prey.»

That's because most ichthyosaur bones from this period have been found in regions farther north like Europe and North America.

In a paper published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists describe a new marine reptile, Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that's breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are like.

Early ichthyosaurs were eel - like creatures that stayed close to shore, but over the next 40 million years they evolved into streamlined, dolphin - shaped cruisers that raced through the open oceans, according to ichthyosaur expert Ryosuke Motani of the University of California, Davis (Nature, vol 382, p 347).

Great plant - eating dinosaurs roaming the earth, feeding on lush ferns and palm - like cycads and bennettitaleans... smaller but vicious carnivores stalking the great herbivores... oceans full of fish, squid, and coiled ammonites, plus great ichthyosaurs and long - necked plesiosaurs... vertebrates taking to the air, like the pterosaurs and the first birds.

Looking like a cross between a fish and a dolphin, ichthyosaurs thrived throughout the reign of the dinosaurs, and since their remains are regularly dug up across Europe and the UK, they're among the most well - understood ancient creatures.

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).