Another reptile groupIchthyosaurCarnivore
Guizhouichthyosaurus
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
- Shastasauridae
- When it lived
- 227.3–241.464 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Ladinian – Carnian
- Named by
- Maisch et al., 2006
- Fossil occurrences
- 8 sites
Countries with fossils
- China
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata