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Description: | Specimen of a fossil reptile (ichthyosaur), part of the curved vertebral column of Ichthyosaurus sp., collected from the Lias of Early Jurassic age.
This fossil is part of the spine (back bone) of an ichthyosaur, a large marine reptile that looked a bit like a dolphin. Dolphins, unlike ichthyosaurs, are mammals. Ichthyosaurs were alive at the same time as the dinosaurs, but both became extinct (died out) 65 million years ago.
It is from the Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Reptilia Ichthyosauria | Temporal: | Jurassic period (206 - 144 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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