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New reconstruction of the skull of Protoichthyosaurus

Started by Halichoeres, January 08, 2019, 04:58:54 PM

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January 08, 2019, 04:58:54 PM
The largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis has been scanned and reconstructed and here is the result:


(A is an old reconstruction, B and C are revised and based on analysis of the scans)

The authors estimate that with a skull length of about 80 cm, the entire animal would have been around 3.5 meters long.

Open access: https://peerj.com/articles/6112/
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