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The average length of ichthyosaurs was 2 metres, but much larger specimens are known, such as the Lower Jurassic <em>Temnodontosauru<\/em>s sp. from England exhibited in the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6543,"template":"","sezione":[34],"class_list":["post-7334","punto_di_interesse","type-punto_di_interesse","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sezione-geologia-e-paleontologia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ichthyosaurus - Museum of Nature and Humankind - University of Padua<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitmnu.it\/punto_di_interesse\/ittiosauro\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ichthyosaurus - 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