The dolphin-like ichthyosaurs–also known as 'fish lizards'–are extinct marine reptiles that
roamed the Mesozoic oceans for some 160 million years. As for most ancient vertebrates …

Ichthyosaurians (Ichthyosauria) are a major clade of secondarily aquatic marine tetrapods
that occupied several major predatory niches during the Mesozoic Era. Multiple lines of …

Konservat‐Lagerstätten, such as the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Posidonia Shale of
southwestern Germany, are renowned for their spectacular fossils. Ichthyosaur skeletons …

Exceptionally well-preserved remains belonging to the Australian Early Cretaceous (Albian)
ichthyosaur Platypterygius longmani Wade, 1990 are described in detail. The material is …

The periosteal cortex in the shaft of limb bones is described histologically in three
ichthyosaurian genera, Omphalosaurus, Stenopterygius, and Ichthyosaurus. The primary …

Even after 200 years of study, some details of the cranial anatomy of ichthyosaurs, one of the
most successful groups of marine vertebrates in the Mesozoic, are still unclear. New …

The documented record of ichthyosaurian paleopathologies reveals an array of injury‐
related bone modifications and instances of disease evidenced through multiple clades …

Ichthyosaur fossils are abundant in Lower Jurassic sediments with nine genera found in the
UK. In this paper, we describe the partial skeleton of a large ichthyosaur from the Lower …

Background Ichthyosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles considered as active swimmers highly
adapted to a fully open-marine life. They display a wide range of morphologies illustrating …

In his recent discussion on the taphonomy of ichthyosaurs, van Loon (2013) supported—at
least partially—the view of Reisdorf et al.(2012) and emphasized that explosion of vertebrate …