Definition of Ichthiosaurus
Ichthyosaurus (lit. a fish-reptile), an extinct marine reptile in
the shape of a fish, its limbs paddles, and with a long lizard-like tail.
- Wikipedia
||Ich`thy*o*sau"rus (?), n.; pl.
Ichthyosauri (#). [NL., fr. Gr.
'ichqy`s, -y`os, a fish + say^ros a
lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles; -
- so named from their short, biconcave vertebræ, resembling
those of fishes. Several species, varying in length from ten to
thirty feet, are known from the Liassic, Oölitic, and Cretaceous
formations.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Any of various extinct fishlike marine reptiles of the order Ichthyosauria of the Triassic Period to the Cretaceous Period
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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