How to use in-sentence of “ichthyosaur”:
– It is like the poster reptile of the ichthyosaur family, “Ichthyosaurus”, but with slightly narrower flippers and a smaller head.
– This area was home to Mary, a collector who searched for fossils of the coastline around Lyme Regis and discovered several complete Ichthyosaur fossils.
– King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony visited her shop in 1844 and purchased an ichthyosaur skeleton for his extensive natural history collection.
– The largest ichthyosaur was “Shonisaurus sikanniensis” at ~21metres in length.
– All of these features suggest that “Shonisaurus” may be a relatively specialised offshoot of the main ichthyosaur evolutionary line.
– This review found evidence for four genera of ichthyosaur only a few million years before the extinction event.
Example sentences of “ichthyosaur”:
– Other ichthyosaur fossils proved this feature was not limited to “Ichthyosaurus”.
– In 1818 Anning came to the attention of Thomas Birch, a rich fossil collector, when she sold him an ichthyosaur skeleton.
– Ophthalmosaurus was an ichthyosaur of the Upper Jurassic, named after its large eyes.
– This huge ichthyosaur cruised the shallow seas hunting.
– An ichthyosaur found in the Himalayan mountains called “Himalayasaurus”, may be the same animal as “Shonisaurus”.
– The move was covered in the local paper, which noted that the shop currently had a fine ichthyosaur skeleton on display.
– Vertebrate fossils were much rarer, and exceptional specimens like an almost complete ichthyosaur skeleton could sell for much more.
– Biologist Stephen Jay Gould said the ichthyosaur was his favourite example of convergent evolution.
– She showed it to her friend Elizabeth Philpot who was able to revive the ink with water, and use it to illustrate some of her own ichthyosaur fossils.
- Other ichthyosaur fossils proved this feature was not limited to "Ichthyosaurus".
- In 1818 Anning came to the attention of Thomas Birch, a rich fossil collector, when she sold him an ichthyosaur skeleton.
- Ophthalmosaurus was an ichthyosaur of the Upper Jurassic, named after its large eyes.
– This is the largest eye ever recorded for any vertebrate; the colossal squid eye is larger still.University of California Museum of Paleontology: Motani’s Ichthyosaur page The eyes are surrounded by sclerotic rings, a kind of bony support.
– Although isolated ichthyosaur vertebrae are quite common, the first fossil which showed the ichthyosaur form was found by Mary Anning and her brother Joseph.
– After Joseph made an important find of an ichthyosaur skull in 1810 and Mary found the associated skeleton a year later, they became known to the geologists and amateurs interested in fossils.
– The park has several undisturbed ichthyosaur fossils of the species “Shonisaurus popularis” as well as the early-20th Century ghost town of Berlin.
– University of California Museum of Natural History: Motani’s ichthyosaur page The swimming speed of “Ophthalmosaurus” has been estimated at 2.5 metres per second or greater.
– These included the first ichthyosaur skeleton to be correctly identified ; and some important fish fossils.