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Paleontologists Identify Fossil from British Columbia as Early Jurassic Ichthyosaur


A partial skeleton found in the Fernie Formation in British Columbia, Canada, back in 1916 represents a new genus and species of an extinct marine reptile called ichthyosaur.

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