Sentences with phrase «ichthyosaur discovery»
Prior to the present ichthyosaur discovery, a cryptoclidid plesiosaur, a Middle - Late Jurassic plesiosaur widely known from western Europe, was documented from the Upper Jurassic Katrol Formation [30].
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Other scientists, however, dismissed the discovery of Protoichthyosaurus and suggested that it was identical with Ichthyosaurus, a very common UK ichthyosaur.
Now ancient marine reptiles may be closing the gap, as a new study reports the discovery of a huge fossilized jawbone belonging to an unknown species of ichthyosaur that may have measured up to 26 m (85 ft) long.
The discovery of the ichthyosaur jawbone sheds light on the mystery of what they once thought as the «dinosaur limb bones».