Paleontologists from the Lower Saxony identified a new type of ichthyosaurs, analyzing remains found near the town of Kremling (Cremlingen) in 2005, writes Welt. Scientists from different countries all the while studying the find, the results were published on 3 January in the journal PloS ONE.
A new species of ichthyosaurs called Acamptonectes densus (Latin for “frozen swimmer”). Scientists describe the animal as a result of too closely spaced vertebrae, which would not allow him to turn his head. The lizard was about three meters in length, its jaws were equipped with sharp teeth. In appearance he resembled modern dolphins. In 2013 the skeleton will become part of the exhibition of the museum in Brunswick (Braunschweig).

Until then, scientists have assumed that the ichthyosaurs became extinct in the late Jurassic period, but new studies have put this view into question, says Director Natural History Museum in Braunschweig Ulrich Yoger (Ulrich Joger). It is in this museum were the study of the remains.

The skeleton was found during road construction. According to estimates of paleontologists, he is about 130 million years. Thus, the latest findings indicate that ichthyosaurs had lived in the seas in the early Cretaceous period. Scientists determined the age of the remains of a skeleton stuck in a tooth that belonged to the representative species of sharks that lived during the Cretaceous period. Probably, a predatory fish kill an animal.

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