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Many of the so-called 'dinosaur' remains found on New Zealand are actually mosasaurs and plesiosaurs [citation needed], both being Mesozoic predatory marine reptiles. The largest mosasaur currently on public display is Bruce, a 65-70%-complete specimen of Tylosaurus pembinensis dating from the late Cretaceous Period, approximately 80 million ...
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...
The largest skeleton found reached up to 21 m in length, [7] ... (1500 marine vertebrate fossil skeletons) in a relatively small area.
The type species, M. hoffmannii, is one of the largest marine reptiles known, [25] [57] though knowledge of its skeleton remains incomplete as it is mainly known from skulls. [33]: 100 Russell (1967) wrote that the length of the jaw equalled one tenth of the body length in the species.
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to ...
Mexico's arid desert area has revealed the well-preserved complete skeleton of a new marine reptile that is reportedly 93 million years old.
Ichthyotitan, found in Somerset, has been estimated to be as much as 26 m long—if correct, the largest marine reptile known to date. [37] In the Late Triassic, ichthyosaurs attained the peak of their size and diversity. They occupied many ecological niches. Some were apex predators; others were hunters of small prey.
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