-
ichthyosaurs (all
parvipelvians excluding Macgowania and Hudsonelpidia), for
which the name
Neoichthyosauria was
found to be available.
Parvipelvians were the...
- all
sauropterygians except plesiosaurs and all
ichthyosaurs except parvipelvians), all
crocopodans except crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs...
- Stenopterygius, and the
large predator Temnodontosaurus. More
basal parvipelvians like
Suevoleviathan were also present. The
general morphological variability...
- than any
member of said family.
Although this
anatomy differs from
parvipelvians, the
authors do not rule out the
possibility that this
anatomy could...
- than legs, but the
oldest representatives (with the
exception of the
parvipelvians, more advanced) do not have
dorsal fins, or
would have one but relatively...
- 13% of the skull's length,
though it is
still long
compared to some
parvipelvians. In the
upper jaw, the
snout is
formed by the
elongation of the tooth-bearing...
-
thunnos meaning "tuna" and
sauros meaning "lizard") is an
extinct clade of
parvipelvian ichthyosaurs from the
Early Jur****ic to the
early Late Cretaceous...
-
Hudsonelpidia is an
extinct genus of
small parvipelvian ichthyosaur known from
British Columbia of Canada.
Hudsonelpidia is
known only from the holotype...
-
streamlined bodies.
Mixosaurids were not as dolphin-shaped as the
later parvipelvians, but they were also not eel-shaped like the
earliest ichthyopterygians...
-
analysis that was
based on the
largest currently available data
matrix of
parvipelvian species. Most
other phylogenetic analyses, that were
based on smaller...
