Another reptile groupIchthyosaurCarnivore
Metashastasaurus
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
- 205.7–227.3 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Norian
- Named by
- Nicholls and Manabe, 2001
- Fossil occurrences
- 2 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
Data from Paleobiology Database