General
The most common diets of marine reptiles.
What is carnivorous and/or piscivorous?
A modern animal very similar to Ichthyosaurs ecologically that they’re often compared to despite sharing no close relation evolutionarily.
What is dolphins?
The three main groups the Sauropterygia is separated into.
What is Plesiosauria, Nothosauria, and Placodontia?
The diet of a Mosasaur.
What is anything that would fit on their mouths?
The way Thalattosaurs would move through the water.
What is undulating and using their tails for propulsion?
Three traits that evolved independently in many marine reptile lineages.
What is live birth, flippers, tail fin/fluke, smooth skin, etc.
Two traits Ichthyosaurs had.
What is short neck, smooth scale-less skin, blubber, tail fin, flippers, dorsal fin, pointy jaws with conical or bladed teeth, large eyes, etc.?
The time that the first Plesiosauroid was discovered.
What is 1844?
The group of modern animals Mosasaurs are closest to evolutionarily.
What is monitor lizards?
The only linage of marine crocodilians.
What is Thalattosuchia?
The approximate length of the largest Ichthyosaurs.
What is ~85 feet?
The two main groups the Plesiosauria is separated into.
What is Plesiosauroidea and Pliosauroidea?
The time period Mosasaurs were alive during.
What is Cretaceous?
A group of marine reptiles that prowled the coasts of Asia and North America during the Triassic. They left no modern decedents.
What is Thalattosauria?
The extinction event that caused the Ichthyosaurs to go extinct.
What is the Late Cretaceous oceanic anoxia event?
The period Nothosaurs and Placodonts lived during.
What is Triassic?
The extinction event that wiped out the Mosasaurs.
What is the End Cretaceous Mass Extinction (the asteroid)?
The lineage of marine turtles that was alive during the mesozoic.
What is Protostegidae?
One genus of Ichthyosaur.
What is Shonisaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Mixosaurus, etc.?
The largest Pliosaur genus.
What is Kronosaurus?
The geographical range of Mosasaurs.
What is the shallow waters of North and South America?
The only lineage of marine Archosauromorph that were alive during the Triassic.
What is Tanysauria?