Named By: | Wiman in 1929 |
Time Period: | Early Triassic - Mid Triassic, 235 Ma |
Location: | Canada, China, Greenland and Japan |
Size: | 1 to 1.5 meters long |
Diet: | Carnivore |
Fossil(s): | Several specimens |
Classification: | | Chordata | Reptilia | Ichthyopterygia | Grippidia | Grippiidae | |
Grippia is a genus of ichthyosaur, an extinct group of reptiles that resembled dolphins. These ichthyosaurs were small; at 1-1.5 m (3.3-4.9 ft) in length. Fossil remains from Svalbard from the specimen SVT 203 were originally assigned to Grippia longirostris but are now thought to have belonged to a non-ichthyopterygian diapsid related to Helveticosaurus.