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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 fossils were found much earlier, in 1985, by a geology student and were at first erroneously attributed to a theropod dinosaur by Hahnel. [12] The remains originally contained part of a rostrum with teeth (now lost). In August 2006, palaeontologists of the University of Oslo discovered the first remains of a pliosaur on Norwegian soil. The ...
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Steve Etches, MBE (born in 1949) is an English plumber, fossil collector and preparator in Kimmeridge, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. From an early age on, Etches began to find, collect and restore the fossils he found on the Jurassic Coast.
Thaumatodracon is a genus of rhomaleosaurid pliosaur from the early Jurassic found in the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, named by Adam Smith and Ricardo Araújo in 2017. [1] In early 1969, German amateur paleontologist Kurt Wiedenroth at the coast of Dorset between Lyme Regis and Charmouth discovered a plesiosaur skeleton. At ...
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Nicknamed "Westbury pliosaur II", it was first described by Sassoon et al. (2012) who, together with Knutsen (2012), assigned it tentatively to Pliosaurus sp.. [ 11 ] [ 2 ] It was reassigned to its own species by Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans, Adam S. Smith, Judyth Sassoon, Scott Moore-Faye, Hilary F. Ketchum and Richard Forrest in 2013 .
Kimmeridge Clay is named after the village of Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast of England, where it is well exposed and forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. [2] Onshore, it is of Late Jurassic ( Kimmeridgian ) age and outcrops across England, in a band stretching from Dorset in the south-west, north-east to North Yorkshire .