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According to evolutionary science, the earliest animal that could be called an ichthyosaur was ''Utatsusaurus'', which allegedly lived in the early Triassic Period some 245-250 million years ago.  It has been claimed that ichthyosaurs evolved from this species, becoming some 80 or so species and thriving throughout the Mesozoic Era, only to become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous along with [[dinosaur]]s and flying reptiles.   

According to evolutionary science, the earliest animal that could be called an ichthyosaur was ''Utatsusaurus'', which allegedly lived in the early Triassic Period some 245-250 million years ago.  It has been claimed that ichthyosaurs evolved from this species, becoming some 80 or so species and thriving throughout the Mesozoic Era, only to become extinct at the end of the Cretaceous along with [[dinosaur]]s and flying reptiles.   

Creationists maintain that ichthyosaurs were created by an act of God during the Creation Week as described in Genesis.  In 1999 a fossil ichthyosaur skull and adjacent vertebrae were found in an abandoned rock quarry near Hauenstein, Switzerland.  The skull as found was vertical, and was forced into three layers of matrix which have been dated by traditional scientific methods as spanning just over one million years.  The discoverer, Dr Achim Reisdorf, tried to explain it as the fossilization of an animal only after the soft layers in which it lay had hardened up, despite the observed evidence that animal remains will decay and disintegrate with a few years as a result of scavenging or weather/water actions.<ref>http://creation.com/kamikaze-ichthyosaur</ref><ref>http://creation.com/media-center?fileID=9e6YHCJ4A5s</ref>

Creationists maintain that ichthyosaurs were created by an act of God during the Creation Week as described in Genesis.  In 1999 a fossil ichthyosaur skull and adjacent vertebrae were found in an abandoned rock quarry near Hauenstein, Switzerland.  The skull as found was vertical, and was forced into three layers of matrix which have been dated by traditional scientific methods as spanning just over one million years.  The discoverer, Dr Achim Reisdorf, tried to explain it as the fossilization of an animal only after the soft layers in which it lay had hardened up, despite the observed evidence that animal remains will decay and disintegrate with a few years as a result of scavenging or weather/water actions.<ref>https://creation.com/kamikaze-ichthyosaur</ref><ref>https://creation.com/media-center?fileID=9e6YHCJ4A5s</ref>

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