Bone fragments could be the remains of an 80-foot ichthyosaur, which would set a new record.
A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago. The new species is dubbed Ichthyotitan severnensis and may have been over 80 feet long, according to the team’s estimates. The finding means that ichthyosaurs could have grown nearly as large as blue whales, which have long reigned as the undisputed biggest animals known to science. The team described I.
” Last week, paleontologists from the University of Bonn published a study in PeerJ confirming that several large chunks of bone found across Europe over the last 150 years belonged to giant ichthyosaurs, rather than dinosaurs. Indeed, evidence of shastasaurids mainly pops up in their fossilized teeth and vertebrae.
Shonisaurus Environment I. Severnensis Shastasaurus Shastasauridae Heinz Furrer Dean Lomax Ichthyosauria Martin Sander Gizmodo
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