- ago; the last
known forms lived in the
middle Cretaceous. A
basal ichthyosauriform is Cartorhynchus; more
derived species are part of the Ichthyopterygia...
- thus the
frequency among ichthyosauriforms is not
unusually high. They also
observed that
Early Tri****ic
ichthyosauriforms generally had small, rounded...
- Ichthyosauriformes, of
which Cartorhynchus was a
basal member.
Other ichthyosauriforms were the Ichthyopterygia,
containing the
Ichthyosauria and allies...
-
China This site
provides important fossils to show
early evolution of
ichthyosauriforms.
Petropavlovka Formation 248 Ma
Orenburg Oblast,
Russia A site known...
-
ichthyosaur lineage being already fully aquatic. In 2014, a
small basal ichthyosauriform from the
upper Lower Tri****ic was
described that had been discovered...
-
Gutarra and
colleagues studied the
energy demands of
swimming in
ichthyosauriforms using com****tional
fluid dynamics and
models of nine taxa, one of...
- Tintori;
Olivier Rieppel;
Cheng Ji & Jian-Dong
Huang (2015). "A
basal ichthyosauriform with a
short snout from the
Lower Tri****ic of China". Nature. 517 (7535):...
-
throughout their evolution. Indeed, the
oldest known representatives of
ichthyosauriforms (a
group that
includes ichthyosaurs,
their ancestors and
related lineages)...
- such as mesosaurs, phytosaurs, thalattosaurians, saurosphargids,
ichthyosauriforms, sauropterygians,
pleurosaurids or mosasauroids, as well as mammalian...
- Olivier; Ji, Cheng; Huang, Jian-Dong (5
November 2014). "A
basal ichthyosauriform with a
short snout from the
Lower Tri****ic of China". Nature. 517 (7535):...
