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The skull of a pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, was discovered on a beach in Dorset, England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
The plesiosaur remains found at Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre near Herschel, Saskatchewan, a completely new species, Dolichorhynchops herschelensis, by Dr. Tamaki Sato, a Japanese vertebrate paleontologist. [105] Skull of Futabasaurus suzukii. F. suzukii was described by Sato and others in 2006. 2006
A large pliosaur skull is the subject of a BBC documentary, Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster, which aired on 1 January 2024. The tip of the skull was found by Phil Jacobs when fossil collecting near Kimmeridge Bay.
Holotype skull. A nearly complete fossil skeleton of a pliosaur, preserved in three dimensions, was found by Gleb N. Uspensky in 2002 on the eastern bank of the Volga River, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of the village of Slantsevy Rudnik in the Ulyanovsk region of western Russia.
The specific name honours the town of Westbury near which the holotype was found. [ 3 ] The mandible of BRSMG Cc332 is approximately 50 cm longer than CAMSM J.35991 (proposed neotype for P. brachyspondylus ), but is shorter than the two French specimens referred to P. brachyspondylus .
Sachicasaurus was a large pliosaur, with the type specimen measuring approximately 10 metres (33 ft) long and weighing 17 metric tons (19 short tons). [1] [2] The holotype specimen, MP111209-1, was found in 2013 and is known from a near complete skull, and postcranial elements including a complete hindlimb and various vertebrae. Diagnostic ...
Brachauchenius (meaning 'short neck') is an extinct genus of pliosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what are now North America and North Africa.Only one species is known, B. lucasi, initially described by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1903 from a partial fossil skeleton discovered in a quarry in Kansas, United States.
In 1823, Thomas Clark reported an almost complete skull, probably belonging to Thalassiodracon, which is now preserved by the British Geological Survey as specimen BGS GSM 26035. [8] The same year, commercial fossil collector Mary Anning and her family uncovered an almost complete skeleton at Lyme Regis in Dorset , England, on what is today ...