The Ichthyosauri (Figure 1) must have been very large, seven or eight feet being the ordinary length, while specimens measuring from twenty to thirty feet are not uncommon.
It is greatly to be regretted that all that is known of the Triassic Reptiles antecedent to the Ichthyosauri still remains in the form of original papers, and is not yet embodied in text-books.
Among these animals, the Ichthyosauri (Fish-Lizards) form one of the best-known and most prominent groups.
But, as we have already seen, the Ichthyosauri and Teleosauri were of great dimensions, as were also the Iguanodon and Megalosaurus, which were ten times the size of living Iguanas.
Probably our readers are already more or less familiar with the drawings of the fossilised remains of Ichthyosauri to be seen in almost every text-book of geology.
If I went below that, I should come upon the chalk, and there I should find something altogether different, the remains of ichthyosauri and pterodactyles, and ammonites, and so forth.
All our fearless ancestors were eaten by ichthyosauri and other ferocious and primitive monsters.
Indeed, there would be more ichthyosauri than men in the world to-day if certain of our progenitors had not learned that it is an exceedingly healthful thing at times to run for dear life.
The ichthyosauri were not proud: they crawled and floundered as we do.
God could do without the ichthyosauri and the mastodon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ichthyosauri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
