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What were the types of reptiles in the past that were destroyed by the asteroids like dinosaurs and venosaurs?

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  1. All marine reptiles such as mosasaurs, pleisiosaurs, and ichthyosaurs. But the crocs and alligators get to live.

    All flying reptiles (pterosauria) unless of course we're talking about birds (highly evolved theropod dinosaurs).


  2. Marine reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs were apparently wiped out by the Chicxulub impact c 66 MYA. I don't think impacts caused the end Permian extinctions, which wiped out many mammal-like reptiles.

  3. I've no idea what 'venosaurs' might be referring to.

    As well as the last of the non-birdy dinosaurs, the K-T extinction(s) seem to have accounted for the final pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs among reptiles.  Off hand, no other major groups come to mind.  Ichthyosaurs, for example, are very rare at the beginning of the Upper Cretaceous fossil record.  That would suggest their final extinction was earlier than the K-T event(s).  The plesiosaurs and pterosaurs were already heavily depleted, but there were some still around.

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