Ichthyosauria

A review of the Australian Cretaceous longipinnate ichthyosaur Platypterygius, (Ichthyosauria, Ichthyopterygia).

Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

A review of the Australian Cretaceous longipinnate ichthyosaur Platypterygius, (Ichthyosauria, Ichthyopterygia).

Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no Darren Naish 2006

Cretaceous Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria, or Pterosauria less embryonic, or more differentiated, species than those of the

Essays 2007

The ancestors of Terebratulina caput serpentis may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Polyzoa and the pedicellariæ of Echinoderms, between Ichthyosauria and

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Thus those remarkable fossil reptiles, the Ichthyosauria and

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

That while even "horse ancestry" fails to supply such a desideratum, in very strongly marked and exceptional kinds (such as the Ichthyosauria, Chelonia, and Anoura), the absence of links is very important and significant.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

This, of course, is especially the case as regards the marine Ichthyosauria and Plesiosauria, of which such numbers of remains have been discovered.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Thus the great oceanic Mammalia -- the whales -- show striking resemblances to those prodigious, extinct, marine reptiles, the Ichthyosauria, and this not only in structures readily referable to similarity of habit, but in such matters as greatly elongated premaxillary bones, together with the concealment of certain bones of the skull by other cranial bones.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

The ancestors of Terebratulina caput serpentis may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of Hastings.

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909