Sentences with phrase «ichthyosaur bones»

That's because most ichthyosaur bones from this period have been found in regions farther north like Europe and North America.

Ichthyosaur bones commonly pop up on England's fossil - rich coast near Lyme Regis.

Not exact matches

Dean added: «One of the Aust bones might also be an ichthyosaur surangular.

The bone belongs to a giant ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric aquatic reptile, and experts estimate the length of this specimen's body would have been up to 26 metres.

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.

Lomax and Massare identified the specimen as an incomplete bone (called a surangular) from the lower jaw of a giant ichthyosaur.

Twitchett and his colleagues examined tiny fossils on and inside an ichthyosaur's bones to find out what happened after it died.

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

The researchers believe these bones, which were thought to be the limbs of land - dwelling dinosaurs, may be other giant ichthyosaur jawbone fragments, but it's hard to know for sure until a more complete skeleton turns up.

This new jawbone changes our picture of ichthyosaurs dramatically — not only does it beat out the largest - known shastasaurid, the 69 - foot Shonisaurus sikanniensis, it may reveal that mysterious bones discovered in other parts of the UK are also from giant ichthyosaurs:

We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»

The discovery of the ichthyosaur jawbone sheds light on the mystery of what they once thought as the «dinosaur limb bones».