Sentences with phrase «ichthyosaur named»
One rare exception — discovered in the 1800s in southern England's Bristol Channel — is a spectacularly preserved, 180 - million - year - old ichthyosaur named Hauffiopteryx.
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Mary Anning and her brother Joseph found the complete skeleton of a Jurassic - era ichthyosaur in 1812; the creature (which was thought to resemble a crocodile) didn't receive its current scientific name until 1817.