Ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaurs Ancient Greek for fish lizard ἰχθύς or ichthys meaning fish and σαῦρος or sauros meaning lizard are large extinct marine reptiles. They concluded it was an ichthyosaur - a type of warm-blooded air-breathing sea predator not unlike dolphins.
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Other specimens are embedded in the rock and visible at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nye County.
. Workers excavating the sea dragon. 21 hours agoDiscovered in a reservoir in the county of Rutland in the English East Midlands the specimen is the largest and most complete ichthyosaur fossil ever found in the UK measuring nearly 33 feet in. In 1977 the Triassic ichthyosaur Shonisaurus became the State Fossil of Nevada.
These distant relatives of lizards and snakes lepidosaurs were the most highly specialized aquatic reptiles but ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs. While dinosaurs dominated land during the Mesozoic Era 252-66 million years ago marine reptiles like this giant ichthyosaurnicknamed Jim 2ruled the sea. Nevada is the only state to possess a complete skeleton.
Come see the complete skull on display for the very first time. Noun any of an order Ichthyosauria of extinct marine reptiles of the Mesozoic specialized for aquatic life by a streamlined body with a long snout limbs reduced to small fins for steering and a large lunate caudal fin. Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia fish flippers a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 although the.
They could grow up to 25 metres long and lived between 250 million and 90 million years ago. With a skull size of 2 meters and an estimated body size of 17 meters this creature is the largest animal. Several of the specimens are now in the collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Dr Dean Lomax a palaeontologist from Manchester University was brought in to lead the excavation effort. Ichthyosaur any member of an extinct group of aquatic reptiles most of which were very similar to porpoises in appearance and habits.
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