Grippia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grippia Fossil range: Early Triassic |
||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scientific classification | ||||||||||||
|
Grippia is a genus of ichthyosaur, an extinct group of reptiles that resembled dolphins. Fossils have been found along the coasts of Greenland, China, Japan, and Canada; of Early Triassic age. These ichthyosaurs were small; they were 1 - 1.5 m in length.