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Temnodontosaurus
Temnodontosaurus platyodon
Era: JurassicDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Early JurassicSize: 9.1m
Temnodontosaurus (meaning "cutting-tooth lizard") is an extinct genus of large ichthyosaurs that lived during the Lower Jurassic in what is now Europe and possibly Chile. The first known fossil is a specimen consisting of a complete skull and partial skeleton discovered on a cliff by Joseph and Mary Anning around the early 1810s in Dorset, England