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These creatures like dolphins were up to 14 meters and inhabited shallow seas some 170 million years ago.
A new species of rMarine eptil the Jurassic era has been identified from fossils found on the Scottish island of Skye. These dolphin-like creatures were up to 14 meters from snout to tail, and They lived in warm shallow seas around Scotland about 170 million years ago, According to researchers. They were near the top of the food chain at the time and took advantage of fish and other reptiles.
Un equipo de paleontólogos, liderado por la Universidad de Edimburgo y que incluye muchas instituciones escocesas, studied fossil skull fragments, Teeth, vertebrae and a bone of the upper wing unearthed on the island in the last 50 years. They identified several examples of extinct aquatic animals (known as ichthyosaurs) that lived during the Early and Middle JurassicIncluding entirely new species. "During the time of the dinosaurs, in Scottish waters prowled Large sized reptiles motorboats. Its fossils are very rare, and only now, for the first time, have found a new species was unique in Scotland"Says Steve Brusatte, School of Geosciences. "Without the generosity of collectors who donated the bones to a museum rather than keep them or sell them, you would never have known that there was this incredible animal."
Name in Gaelic
La nueva especie, Dearcmhara shawcrossi, Named in honor of an enthusiastic amateur, Brian Shawcross, who recovered fossil creature in 1959. Dearcmhara means Scottish Gaelic marine lizard, and pays homage to the history of Skye and the Hebrides. The species is one of the few that has been given a Gaelic name.
During the Jurassic Period, much of Skye was under water. At that time, he joined the rest of the UK and was part of a large island between the land masses gradually became estranged and Europe and North America. Skye is one of the few places in the world where you can find fossils from the Middle Jurassic Period.
SOURCE: Voice Galicia.es
