The Toretocnemidae were a group of
ichthyosaurs
Ichthyosaurs (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and ) are large extinct marine reptiles. Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia ('fish flippers' – a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1842, alt ...
that lived in the
Late Triassic
The Late Triassic is the third and final epoch (geology), epoch of the Triassic geologic time scale, Period in the geologic time scale, spanning the time between annum, Ma and Ma (million years ago). It is preceded by the Middle Triassic Epoch ...
period.
References
*Maisch, M.W. and Matzke, A.T., 2000, "The Ichthyosauria", ''Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Series B (Geologie und Paläontologie)'', 298: 1-159
Late Triassic ichthyosaurs
Prehistoric reptile families
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