Ichthyosaurus
Videos
Ichthyosaurus is an extinct genus of ichthyosaurs from the Early Jurassic of Europe. Some specimens of the ichthyosaurid Protoichthyosaurus from England and Switzerland have been erroneously referred
Ichthyosaurus BW
Ichthyosaurus communis in London
Cast of the first known complete Ichthyosaurus specimen (originally referred to as Proteosaurus), which was destroyed during World War 2
Skeleton of Ichthyosaurus breviceps
Temnodontosaurus
Videos
Temnodontosaurus is an extinct genus of large ichthyosaurs that lived during the Lower Jurassic in what is now Europe and possibly Chile. The first known fossil is a specimen consisting of a complete
Ichthyosaurus
…scientific description, with the earliest described ichthyosaur being Proteosaurus by James Everard Home in 1819 for a skeleton which is now attributed to Temnodontosaurus platyodon. Henry Beche and William Conybeare in 1821 considered Ichthyosaurus to have taxonomic priority over Proteosaurus and named the species I. communis based…
Temnodontosaurus trigonodon 5
Various fossil specimens of T. platyodon on display at the Natural History Museum in London, England. In the center, the neotype skeleton (NHMUK PV OR 2003*), with the first specimen discovered (NHMUK PV R 1158) being present at the bottom left. The vertebrae at the bottom right come from another individual
PB 1, the holotype specimen of T. trigonodon, at the Banz Abbey Museum, Bad Staffelstein, in Bavaria, Germany
CAMSM J35176, the holotype skull of T. zetlandicus