Ichthyosauridae is an extinct family of thunnosaur ichthyosaurs from the latest Triassic and Early Jurassic (Rhaetian to Pliensbachian stages) of Europe, and possibly also from the middle Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian or Barremian stage) of Iraq. Named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, in 1841, it is usually thought to contain a single genus, Ichthyosa...
[n] - later ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous
family Ichthyosauridae noun later ichthyosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous; widely distributed in both hemispheres