Another reptile groupIchthyosaurCarnivore
Grippia
Dolphin-shaped sea reptiles: fast swimmers with huge eyes that gave birth to live young at sea instead of laying eggs on land.
Who it is related to: A branch of reptiles separate from the dinosaurs; exactly where it sits on the family tree is still debated.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Ichthyosaurs
- Family
- Grippiidae
- When it lived
- 247–250.8 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Unknown
- Named by
- Wiman, 1929
- Fossil occurrences
- 3 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
- Norway
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata