| Grippia Temporal range: Early Triassic |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Superorder: | Ichthyopterygia |
| Order: | Grippidia |
| Family: | Grippiidae |
| Genus: | Grippia |
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. Fossil remains from Svalbard from the specimen SVT 203 were originally assigned to Grippia longirostris but are know thought to have belonged to a non-ichthyopterygian diapsid related to Helveticosaurus.[1][2]