nothosaur การใช้

• New aquatic reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs, evolved.
• New aquatic reptiles evolved, such as ichthyosaurs and nothosaurs.
• It is the best known member of the nothosaur order.
• With a length of just, it was one of the smallest known nothosaurs.
• Both include marine reptiles like thallatosaurs and nothosaurs and probably represented environments along the northern shorelines of the Tethys Ocean.
• It is usually classified as a nothosaur, but has also been considered a pachypleurosaur or a more primitive form of sauropterygian.
• It had fine needle like sharp teeth similar to those of nothosaurs and were probably used to trap small prey such as fish and squids.
• "Lariosaurus " was unique among nothosaurs because its front legs were adapted into paddles, while the back legs remained five-toed.
• In some cladistic classifications however ( Rieppel 2000 ), they are considered the sister group to the Eusauropterygia, the clade that includes the nothosaurs and plesiosaurs.
• During the Mesozoic many groups of reptiles became adapted to life in the seas, including ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians.
• "' Nothosaurs "'( order "'Nothosauroidea "') were Triassic marine sauropterygian reptiles that may have lived like seals of today, catching food in water but coming ashore on rocks and beaches.
• It is thought that one branch of the nothosaurs may have evolved into plesiosaurs such as " Liopleurodon ", a short-necked plesiosaur that grew up to, and the long-necked " Cryptoclidus ", a fish eater with a neck as long as.
• During the Mesozoic era, many groups of reptiles became adapted to life in the seas, including such familiar clades as the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs ( these two orders were once thought united in the group " Enaliosauria, " a classification now cladistically obsolete ), mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians.