Rare 200 million-year-old ichthyosaurus fossil discovered in a private collection two decades after it was uncovered is only the second example of its species ever found

A rare 200 million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile that lived alongside the dinosaurs has been identified more than two decades after it was discovered.

The ichthyosaur, whose name translates as 'fish lizards' from ancient Greek, were widespread during the Mesozoic Era.

Ichthyosaurs recently featured in the BBC documentary Attenborough And The Sea Dragon and their remains have been discovered as far afield as the Americas, Europe and Australia. 

The newly identified fossil, originally found in a quarry in northern Somerset in 1996, is only the second example of a recently discovered species of ichthyosaur.

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