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Definition of Ichthyosaurs
1. ichthyosaur [n] - See also: ichthyosaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ichthyosaurs
Literary usage of Ichthyosaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Geology: A Text-book for Colleges and for the General Reader by Joseph LeConte (1891)
"ichthyosaurs. — Besides the Dinosaurs, Marsh describes from the same
formation (Jurassic), but from a lower horizon, ..."
2. Memoirs of the University of California by University of California, Berkeley (1908)
"In spite of the fact that the orbits were much smaller in the earlier ichthyosaurs
than in the later genera, and that the inferior temporal arcade was large ..."
3. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"The ichthyosaurs began their existence, so far as we now know, about the middle
of Triassic times and continued to near the middle of Upper Cretaceous, ..."
4. Dictionary of Scientific Illustrations and Symbols: Moral Truths Mirrored in (1894)
"Not only are the skeletons of the ichthyosaurs entire, but sometimes the contents
of their stomachs still remain between their ribs, so that we can discover ..."
5. The Thalattosauria: A Group of Marine Reptiles from the Triassic of California by John Campbell Merriam (1905)
"Other differences may be due to great increase in the size of the orbits in the
ichthyosaurs, although this may be considered as due to better opportunity ..."
6. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1907)
"Where the term "relatively" has been used the unexpressed comparison is with the
Jurassic ichthyosaurs. 1. Limbs relatively large and first two segments ..."
7. University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of by University of California (1868-1952) (1910)
"The nasal bones extend behind the narial openings for a short distance, but appear
not to reach back as far as in other ichthyosaurs. The form of the nasals ..."
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