«Whilst doing my dissertation in 2016, I studied
several ichthyosaurs in the collections, including a very small skeleton.
In 1979, after inspecting
several ichthyosaurs from the UK, palaeontologist Dr Robert Appleby announced a new type of ichthyosaur called Protoichthyosaurus.
They compared it with
several ichthyosaurs and visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, and examined the largest ichthyosaur known, the shastasaurid Shonisaurus sikanniensis, which is 21 m long.