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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 ...
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 .
It was found in 1889 in the Aulacostephanus eudoxus ammonite zone of the lower Kimmeridge Clay, at the same locality as CAMSM J.29564 (the neotype for P. brachyspondylus). Knutsen (2012) suggested to replace the neotype for P. brachyspondylus , with CAMSM J.35991 as the new neotype, because both specimens and possibly the lost holotype are from ...
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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 ...
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.
View of the main gallery in The Etches Collection The founder Steve Etches in the workshop at The Etches Collection. The Etches Collection (also known as the Museum of Jurassic Marine Life) [2] is an independent fossil museum located in the village of Kimmeridge, Dorset, England. [3]