Unknown Species of Ichthyosaur Discovered in Germany

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A team of researchers from Switzerland and Germany has identified a previously unknown species of ichthyosaur. The discovery is based on fossils kept at the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken in Germany and is published… Unknown species of ichthyosaur discovered in Germany - ΙΝΑΦΤΕΜΟΠΟΡΙΚΙ

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Find in the clay pit: Three marine dinosaur fossils from the vicinity of Bamberg have turned out to be a new Ichthyosaur species. The three to four-metre-long specimens therefore belong to the rare genus Eurhinosaurus. Typically for these Ichthyosaur species is a narrow snout with a drastic overbite. However, their way of life was so far little known about lack of fossil finds. The now identified specimens are however exceptionally complete and …