Etymograph

English

ichthyosaur

Ichthyosaur comes from mul Ichthyosaurus.

  1. mulmodernIchthyosaurus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2013ichthyosaur

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. mulmodernIchthyosaurus
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2013ichthyosaur

Earliest quotation: 2013, F. Crescitelli, The Visual System in Vertebrates: “The most striking marine reptiles are the fishlike or…”

Today it means

noun Any fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order †Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / mul Ichthyosaurus / ichthyosaur