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Articulated skeleton of Ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur at the excavation site south of Lodai village, situated 30 km northeast of Bhuj town, the headquarters of Ka - chchh District in Gujarat state, western India.

So the new find suggests a shift in the menu for young ichthyosaurs at some point in their evolutionary history, the researchers write October 3 in Historical Biology.

Not exact matches

Other comparisons suggest the Lilstock ichthyosaur was at least 20 - 25 m. Of course, such estimates are not entirely realistic because of differences between species.

Paul said «Initially, the bone just looked like a piece of rock but, after recognising a groove and bone structure, I thought it might be part of a jaw from an ichthyosaur and immediately contacted ichthyosaur experts Dean Lomax (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) who expressed interest in studying the specimen.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

A comprehensive new study looking at variations in Ichthyosaurus, a common British Jurassic ichthyosaur (sea - going reptile) also known as «Sea Dragons», has provided important information into recognizing new fossil species.

Scientists know a good deal about these animals from the fossil record, but newly published results in Historical Biology, gleaned from a long - forgotten specimen recently discovered in the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, are recasting both the size and diets of baby ichthyosaurs.

The dolphins of their day, ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that breathed air and swam at high speeds.

Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist and Honorary Scientist at The University of Manchester, working with Professor Judy Massare of Brockport College, New York, have studied thousands of ichthyosaur fossils and have delved through hundreds of years of records to solve an ancient mystery.

The remains of a 3 - metre ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at what feasted on death during the dinosaur era

The remains of a 3 - metre - long ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at the creatures that feasted on death during the dinosaur era

It has been on display since the 1920's at London's Natural History Museum with 120 other plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, mounted in sand, wax resin and plaster.

At the start of the Jurassic the ichthyosaurs were joined by the plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, which thrived right through until the end of the Cretaceous some 65 million years ago.

Ichthyosaurs (which in Greek means «fish lizards») lived from about 248 million years ago to about 95 million years ago, says Da - Yong Jiang, a vertebrate paleontologist at Peking University in Beijing.

C. lenticarpus «is the closest thing we have to a terrestrial ancestor» of ichthyosaurs, says Valentin Fischer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who wasn't connected to the research.

This is what drove this assortment of collectors on to the next bird of paradise, or ichthyosaur, mole skin or fossil skull, at whatever cost.

Previous research showed ichthyosaurs varied in length, from just a few centimeters (at the smallest) to around 15 meters (at the largest).

You can visit Camp's original dig site and see the remains of these magnificent animals in place at Berlin - Ichthyosaur State Park.

Following his hunch that it could be from the prehistoric ichthyosaur, he sent two samples to marine labs — one to Dean Lomax at the University of Manchester, and another to Dr. Judy Massare at the SUNY Brockport in New York.