Saturday 18 June 2016

Forgotten fossil that lay in a museum for half a century is found to be a new species of 'British' ichthyosaur

The specimen is relatively complete, consisting of a partial skeleton including a skull, pectoral bones, limbs, pelvis bones, ribs and vertebrae. However, the bones are disorderly - it appears that the carcass 'nosedived' into the seabed before it became fossilised, which may have restricted previous studyA new species of ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile alive at the same time as the dinosaurs - has been identified in Nottinghamshire.
Ichthyosaurs, which look similar to dolphins and sharks, swam the seas of the Earth for millions of years in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. 
Two hundred million years from the early Jurassic period, a palaeontologist has just discovered a new 'British' species, which he has named Wahlisaurus massarae.read more
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