Unranked clade
Valid Extinct

Euichthyosauria

(Motani 1999)

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Temporal range
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PBDB occurrences
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Group
Ichtyosaures
Carnivore nektonic Marine
Euichthyosauria
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Partial skull of Shastasaurus pacificus (UCMP 9017) from the Late Triassic of California, USA, in (A) lateral, (B) dorsal, and (C) anterolateral view. Based on this skull, Shastasaurus has repeatedly been reconstructed with a long, tooth-bearing rostrum. However, note the slenderness of the lower jaw (B, C) and the strong anterior taper of the snout (B), both of which are more consistent with the abbreviated and toothless snout of Shastasaurus liangae comb. nov. than with the traditional long-snouted reconstruction of this skull (as, e.g., in references [22] and [23]). © P. Martin Sander1*, Xiaohong Chen2, Long Cheng2, Xiaofeng Wang2 · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia
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Classification
Ichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Hueneosauria Unranked clade
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Merriamosauria Unranked clade
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Euichthyosauria Unranked clade
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Bibliography
Original description
R. Motani. 1999. Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3):473-496 DOI ↗