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Description
Species name: Ophthalmosaurus sp.
meaning: "Eye-lizard"
Time Period: Middle to late jurassic period
Size (length): six metres
Place of fossils: Europe and North America
General adaptations: an almost toothless jaw was well adapted for catching squid and possessing a very dolphin like body structure (convergent evolution). And like the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, it also developed the ability to give birth to live young.

this ichthyosaur was based on a composite skeletal template made by

Description
Species name: Ophthalmosaurus sp.
meaning: "Eye-lizard"
Time Period: Middle to late jurassic period
Size (length): six metres
Place of fossils: Europe and North America
General adaptations: an almost toothless jaw was well adapted for catching squid and possessing a very dolphin like body structure (convergent evolution). And like the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, it also developed the ability to give birth to live young.

this ichthyosaur was based on a composite skeletal template made by