Posts Tagged ‘Ichthyosaur Fossil’

WFS News: platypterygiid ichthyosaur,98-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossil Uncovered in New Zealand

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists in New Zealand have discovered a partial skeleton of platypterygiid ichthyosaur dating to the Cretaceous period. “Ichthyosaurs were a clade of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles that inhabited the seas for much of the Mesozoic Era, first appearing in the Early Triassic before their ultimate extinction at […]