Sentences with phrase «ichthyosaur fossil»

The first almost - complete Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil was found in the Kachchh Region of Gujarat, India.

«First Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil found in India: The fish - like reptile was over five - meter long, likely ate ammonites and other crunchy prey.»

Another baby ichthyosaur fossil that lived more recently had a stomach full of fish scales.

Cephalopod remains appear to dominate the stomach contents of a newly analyzed ichthyosaur fossil from nearly 200 million years ago.

Many ichthyosaur fossils were found in England during the early 19th century, but it was not until 1821 that the first ichthyosaur species was described — called Ichthyosaurus communis.

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.

In the years that followed, many eminent scientists, including Sir Richard Owen (the man who coined the word dinosaur), studied ichthyosaur fossils collected from Dorset, Somerset, Yorkshire and other locations in England.

Not exact matches

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

Baby ichthyosaurs like the one illustrated here may have noshed on squid, a new analysis of a museum fossil suggests.

Brusatte and colleagues know that the fossil belonged to an ichthyosaur, a type of ancient marine reptile, and that it probably reached 3 to 4 meters in length, about the size of a small rowboat.

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.

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

This Jurassic fossil, the first of its kind for India, suggests that ichthyosaurs were more widespread than previously thought, researchers reported this week in PLOS ONE.

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.

Scientists had guessed that ichthyosaurs» ancestors were land animals that eventually made their way to the sea, but the fossil record is sketchy.

The new fossil of the presumed proto - ichthyosaur was unearthed from rocks in eastern China in 2011.

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.

Organisms of interest include fossil and living squamates (snakes and lizards) as well as of extinct marine reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs.

Fossils of a prehistoric ichthyosaur the size of a blue whale were found in the beach area in the UK.

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

Scientists noted that the newly found fossil is actually 25 percent bigger than the largest ichthyosaur discovered so far.

Dating techniques used to determine the age of the fossils reveal that ichthyosaurs dominated the ocean in the late Triassic and early Cretaceous periods, just as when the dinosaurs were on the brink of extinction.

Months later, she unearths the skeleton of an ichthyosaur, the first fossil of its kind ever found.