Ichthyosaur

The ichthyosaur fossil was found at a nature reserve and reservoir. With a skull size of 2 meters and an estimated body size of 17 meters this creature is the largest animal.


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. Dr Dean Lomax a palaeontologist from Manchester University was brought in to lead the excavation effort. It was over 32 feet long and had a 6-foot skull weighing around one ton. Ichthyosaurus derived from Greek ἰχθύς ichthys meaning fish and σαῦρος sauros meaning lizard is a genus of ichthyosaurs from the late Triassic and early Jurassic Rhaetian - Pliensbachian of Europe Belgium England Germany Switzerland and Portugal and Asia It is among the best known ichthyosaur genera as it is the type genus of the order Ichthyosauria.

They concluded it was an ichthyosaur - a type of warm-blooded air-breathing sea predator not unlike dolphins. Ichthyosaur species varied from 1 to 20 metres 3 to 66 ft in length. Their limbs had been fully transformed into flippers which sometimes contained a very large number of digits and phalanges.

While dinosaurs dominated land during the Mesozoic Era 252-66 million years ago marine reptiles like this giant ichthyosaurnicknamed Jim 2ruled the sea. 18 hours agoFossilized ichthyosaur or sea dragon found in England. These distant relatives of lizards and snakes lepidosaurs were the most highly specialized aquatic reptiles but.

Workers excavating the sea dragon. Come see the complete skull on display for the very first time. 17 hours agoThe colossal 180 million-year-old fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur have been found in the UK in what researchers have described as one of the most significant discoveries in.

At least some species possessed a. They could grow up to 25 metres long and lived between 250 million and 90 million years ago. Ichthyosaur any member of an extinct group of aquatic reptiles most of which were very similar to porpoises in appearance and habits.

Noun any of an order Ichthyosauria of extinct marine reptiles of the Mesozoic specialized for aquatic life by a streamlined body with a long snout limbs reduced to small fins for steering and a large lunate caudal fin. Ichthyosaurs resembled both modern fish and dolphins. A marine reptile called an ichthyosaur ripped into a slightly smaller marine reptile called a thalattosaur 240 million years ago swallowed it and promptly died according to a.

The ichthyosaurs bluntly pointed teeth suggest it fed on fish and squid and perhaps even smaller marine reptiles.


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