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Ichthyosauriformes

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ichthyosauromorphaan extinct clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles consisting of the Ichthyosauriformes and the Hupehsuchia.
tanystropheidaean extinct family of archosauromorph reptiles that lived throughout the Triassic Period, often considered to be "protorosaurs".
thalattosauria(Greek for "sea lizards") an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived in the Middle to Late Triassic.
ichthyosaurnounAny fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order †Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise.
pholidosauridaean extinct family of aquatic neosuchian mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs.
carnosauriaan extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
pistosauroideaa group of marine reptiles within the superorder Sauropterygia that first appeared in the latter part of the Early Triassic and were the ancestors of plesiosaurs.
rhynchosaurnounAny of several diapsid reptiles, of order Rhynchosauria, from the Triassic period
notosuchiaa suborder of primarily Gondwanan mesoeucrocodylian crocodylomorphs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous.
anchisauriaan extinct clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous.
platypterygiusa historically paraphyletic genus of platypterygiine ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous period.
pachycormiformesan extinct order of marine ray-finned fish known from the Early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.
elasmosauridaean extinct family of plesiosaurs, often called elasmosaurs.
pliosauroideaan extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
crocodylomorphaa group of pseudosuchian archosaurs that includes the crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
protostegidaea family of extinct marine turtles that lived during the Cretaceous period.
mesosaurnounAny of a group of small aquatic reptiles, from the early Permian period, of the order †Mesosauria.
massopodaa clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous epochs.
teleosauroideaan extinct superfamily of thalattosuchian crocodyliforms living from the Early Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.
mosasaurnounA large extinct marine reptile in the family †Mosasauridae, dominant marine predator of the Cretaceous. Mosasaurs are considered to belong to Squamata, the same group that includes lizards and snakes.

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