The name means " Mixed Lizard ", and was chosen because it appears to have been a transitional form between the eel-shaped Ichthyosaurs such as " Cymbospondylus " and the later dolphin-shaped ichthyosaurs, such as " Ichthyosaurus ".
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The fossil content of Boulby Quarry is particularly important with two plesiosaur species ( " Eretmosaurus macroptera " and " Thaumatosaurus zetlandicus " ), an ichthyosaur " Ichthyosaurus crassimonus " and the only Upper Lias pterosaur known in Britain, Parapsicephalus being found at the site.
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The type species was originally described and named as " Ichthyosaurus extremus " by Boulenger in 1904 . " Brachypterygius " was named by Bath, UK, but other specimens suggest it more likely came from the Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay ( Late Jurassic ) of Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset, UK.
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Both the original description by Maisch and the redescription of the English specimens found that " Hauffiopteryx " might be either a basalmost member of Eurhinosauria or a basalmost member of Thunnosauria ( which is an equivalent position to a basalmost member of Stenopterygiidae sensu Maisch [ 2008 ] with exclusion of " Ichthyosaurus " ).
45.
It was named by Ryosuke Motani in his 1999 analysis of the relationships of ichthyopterygian marine reptiles and was defined in phylogenetic terms as a stem-based taxon including " the last common ancestor of " Shastasaurus pacificus " and " Ichthyosaurus communis ", and all of its descendants . " The name honours John Campbell Merriam.
46.
It was so-named ( " near lizard " ) by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than " Ichthyosaurus ", which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier . " Plesiosaurus " is the archetypical genus of Plesiosauria and the first to be described, hence lending its name to the order.
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His cartoon, also drawn in 1830, was entitled " Awful Changes " and depicted an ichthyosaur professor lecturing on a fossilised human skull : "'You will at once perceive'continued Professor Ichthyosaurus,'that the skull before us belonged to some of the lower order of animals; the teeth are very insignificant, the power of the jaws trifling, and altogether it seems wonderful how the creature could have procured food . '"
48.
The title character, Moschops, is a young therapsid of the genus " Moschops "; Ally is a theropod of the genus " Allosaurus "; Grandfather Diplodocus is a sauropod of the genus " Diplodocus "; Mrs . Kerry is a ceratopsid of the genus " Triceratops "; Uncle Rex is a " Tyrannosaurus rex "; and Mr . Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur of the genus " Ichthyosaurus ".
49.
The title character, Moschops, is a young therapsid of the genus " Moschops "; Ally is a theropod of the genus " Allosaurus "; Grandfather Diplodocus is a sauropod of the genus " Diplodocus "; Mrs . Kerry is a ceratopsid of the genus " Triceratops "; Uncle Rex is a " Tyrannosaurus rex "; and Mr . Ichthyosaurus is an ichthyosaur of the genus " Ichthyosaurus ".
50.
The documentary was filmed at the Natural History Museum, London, and uses CGI imagery to bring to life several of the extinct animal skeletons in the museum, including " Archaeopteryx ", the Moa Ratite bird ( " Dinornis " ) and Haast's eagle ( " Harpagornis moorei "; lit . " grappling hook bird " ), " Gigantopithecus " ( presented as more human than ponginae ), " Glossotherium ", " Ichthyosaurus " and Dippy, a replica of a famous " Diplodocus " skeleton.
