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Not to be confused with Tenontosaurus.

Amirani1746/sandbox7 Temporal range: Hettangian-Toarcian
Mounted skeleton of T. trigonodon in metal frame at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	†Ichthyosauria
Family:	†Temnodontosauridae McGowan, 1974
Genus:	†Temnodontosaurus Lydekker, 1889
Type species
†Temnodontosaurus platyodon Conybeare, 1822
Other species
List Recognized species † T. trigonodon von Theodori, 1843 † T. crassimanus Blake, 1876 † T. zetlandicus Seeley, 1876 † T. nuertingensis von Huene, 1931 Disputed species † T.? eurycephalus McGowan, 1974 † T.? azerguensis Martin et al., 2012

Temnodontosaurus (meaning "cutting-tooth lizard") is an extinct genus of large ichthyosaurs that lived during the Lower Jurassic in what is now Western Europe and possibly Chile. The first known fossil is a specimen consisting of a complete skull and partial skeleton discovered by Joseph and Mary Anning around the early 1810s in the Dorset county, England. The anatomy of this specimen was subsequently analyzed in a series of articles written by Everard Home between 1814 and 1819, making it the very first ichthyosaur to have been scientifically described. In 1822, the specimen was assigned to the genus Ichthyosaurus by William Conybeare, and more precisely to the species I. platyodon. Noting the large dental differences with other species of Ichthyosaurus, Richard Lydekker suggested in 1889 moving this species into a separate genus, which he named Temnodontosaurus. While many species have been assigned to the genus, only five are recognized as valid, the others being considered synonymous, doubtful or possibly belonging to other taxa.

See also

• List of ichthyosaurs
• Timeline of ichthyosaur research

References

Bibliography

• Owen, Richard (1881). A monograph of the fossil Reptilia of the Liassic formations, Part III, Ichthyopterygia. London: Printed for the Palæontographical Society. pp. 83–134. OCLC 6930920.
• Nicholson, Henry A.; Lydekker, Richard (1889). "Palaeozoology; Vertebrata". A manual of palaeontology for the use of students with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology. Vol. 2. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. p. 889–1464. OCLC 7919973.
• von Huene, Friedrich (1922). Die Ichthyosaurier des Lias und ihre Zusammenhänge [The Ichthyosaurs of the Lias and their connections] (in German). Berlin: Verlag von Gebrüder Borntraeger. OCLC 19870277.
• McGowan, Christopher (1992). Dinosaurs, spitfires, and sea dragons. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-6742-0770-7.
• Cadbury, Deborah (2000). The Dinosaur Hunters : A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-85702-963-5.
• Maisch, Michael W.; Matzke, Andreas T. (2000). "The Ichthyosauria". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B. 298: 1–159.
• McGowan, Christopher; Motani, Ryosuke (2003). Handbook of Paleoherpetology Part 8: Ichthyopterygia. Vol. 1. Munich: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. ISBN 978-3-899-37007-2. OCLC 469848769.
• Ellis, Richard (2003). Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1394-6.
• Maisch, Michael W. (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 3: 151–214.
• Wolniewicz, Andrzej S. (2017). The Anatomy, Taxonomy and Systematics of Middle Triassic–Early Jurassic Ichthyosaurs (Reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) and the Phylogeny of Ichthyopterygia (PhD). University of Oxford.

External links

Paleontological videos

• Attenborough, David (7 January 2019). "Meet a Jurassic Killer: Temnodontosaurus". Nature on PBS. Archived from the original on 29 May 2024 – via YouTube.