Fossil Ichthyosaur Skull and Partial Skeleton

TRIASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 246-237 MILLION YEARS B.P.

14 1/8 in. (5.75 kg, 36 cm).

Featuring the top of the skull with an exposed left eye socket and part of the lower jaw also visible, a number of the cervical vertebrae present, as well as ribs and part of the right scapula.

Provenance

From the Guanling Biota formation, China.
Previously with Shishang Corporation, Taiwan.
From a West London gentleman collector; acquired from a professional fossil company in Taiwan.

Footnotes

Originally, ichthyosaur fossils were misidentified as ‘Saurian’, being either lizards or forms of crocodile. The term 'Ichthyosaur' was first used in 1817 by the German naturalist Karl Dietrich Eberhard Konig, and he did not publish the name until 1825. By the 1830s, the name Ichthyosaur was widely used.

CONDITION

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