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Fossil of Long and Narrow-Snouted Ichthyosaur Uncovered in England


University of Manchester paleontologist Dean Lomax and his colleagues have identified a new genus and species of leptonectid ichthyosaur from a fossilized specimen found in Dorset, England.

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