Scientists have described a new species of Jurassic ichthyosaur from southern Germany. The new species named Jabalisaurus tethyensis, lived around 149 million years ago during the Late Jurassic (Tithonian faunal stage). Remarkably, some fossils assigned to Jabalisaurus tethyensis had previously been classified as Aegirosaurus. The research highlights the hidden diversity of ichthyosaurs in the famous
Read full articleJ. I. Barrientos-Lara and J. Alvarado-Ortega. 2021. A new ophthalmosaurid (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Kimmeridgian deposits of the La Casita Formation, near Go ́mez Farías, Coahuila, northern Mexico. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 111:103499
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103499 ↗