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Blezingeria

Ate: MeatIchthyosaursMiddle TriassicNot technically a dinosaur

Blezingeria belongs to the group: Ichthyosaurs. Its fossils come from rocks about 247 to 237 million years old.1

Fun fact: this sea reptile swam while dinosaurs walked on land. Everyone calls them dinos, but they were a different branch of reptiles.
Lived
247 to 237 million years ago1
Middle Triassic
Most fossils found in
Germany1
Food
Meat1

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
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Scientific name
Blezingeria
Named by
Huene 19511
Group
Ichthyosaurs
Family / clade
Cymbospondylidae1
Classification
Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha1
Age of the rocks
247 to 237 million years ()1
Countries
Germany1
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

  1. Blezingeria in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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