Giant Triassic Ichthyosaur is One of Biggest Animals Ever
Apr 11, 2018 by News Staff / Source
Fossil collector Paul de la Salle found the 205-million-year-old (Late Triassic epoch) specimen on the beach at Lilstock, Somerset, in May 2016.
Paleontologists Dean Lomax from the University of Manchester and Professor Judy Massare of SUNY College at Brockport identified it as an incomplete bone — called a surangular — from the lower jaw of a giant ichthyosaur.
The researchers estimate the length of this specimen’s body would have been up to 85 feet (26 m) — almost the size of a blue whale.
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/giant-triassic-ichthyosaur-05901.html
