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Definition of Genus ichthyosaurus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Ichthyosauridae.
Group relationships: Family Ichthyosauridae, Ichthyosauridae
Member holonyms: Ichthyosaurus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Ichthyosaurus
Literary usage of Genus ichthyosaurus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology by William Buckland (1841)
"Some of the most remarkable of these reptiles have been arranged under the genus
Ichthyosaurus, (or Fish Lizard,) in consequence of the partial resemblance ..."
2. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1846)
"Professor Sedgwick commented at considerable length on the specimen : he fully
agreed with Mr. Carter that it belonged to the genus Ichthyosaurus, ..."
3. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"genus ichthyosaurus*. 134. An entire skeleton, with the cranium somewhat mutilated,
... genus ichthyosaurus ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"The range of the genus Ichthyosaurus,' says Dr. Buckland, ' seems to have begun
with the Muschelkalk, and to have extended through the whole of the oolitic ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"In the chalk formations, for example, the genus Ichthyosaurus quit« the stage of
existence as suddenly as it entered it in the lias, and with every ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1882)
"... an important memoir on the genus Ichthyosaurus to the Imperial found in the
discovery of the genus in the Cretaceous greensand of European Russia. ..."
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