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Ichthyosaurus  n.  (pl. ichthyosauri)  (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; so named from their short, biconcave vertebrae, resembling those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oölitic, and Cretaceous formations.






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"Ichthyosaurus" Quotes from Famous Books



... it up accidentally; because among all possible forms some must be graceful. They had a kind of grand, mammoth civilization, gloomy and goblin. They seem to have floundered up out of Nile mud, like that old, slimy, pre-Adamite brood, the what's-their-name—megalosaurus, ichthyosaurus, pterodactyle, iguanodon, and other misshapen abominations, with now and then wreaths of lotus and ...
— Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands V2 • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... contains remains of those strange flying and swimming reptiles, the pterodactyl, the ichthyosaurus, and the plesiosaurus, which are found in no later deposits, but abounded in preceding ages. The chambered shells called ammonites and belemnites, which are so characteristic of the period preceding the cretaceous, in like manner ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley



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