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Another reptile groupIchthyosaurCarnivore
Shastasaurus
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
- 205.7–237 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Carnian – Norian
- Named by
- Merriam, 1895
- Fossil occurrences
- 10 sites
Countries with fossils
- Canada
- Mexico
- United States
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata