In Depth Hudsonelpidia is a little known ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic. Like with its relatives, Hudsonelpidia was probably a hunter of fish and other small marine organisms. Further Reading Further reading- A remarkable small ichthyosaur from the Upper Triassic of British Columbia, representing a new genus and species. – Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. … Read more
In Depth In 1959 a fossil hunter named Brian Shawcross found a few portions of what was once an ichthyosaur some 175-182 million years before. Shawcross donated this find to the Hunterian museum in Glasgow, Scotland, but for over fifty years the fossils were just listed as those of an ichthyosaur. Then in 2015 a … Read more
In Depth An evaluation of a species of Stenopterygius, S. hauffianus, yielded two things. One, many of the remains of this species could actually be attributed to the Stenopterygius type species, S. quadriscissus. Two, remains that differed from these other fossils were of a new and previously un-described genus of ichthyosaur, hence the re-description and … Read more