Discovery of the first ichthyosaur from the Jurassic of India: Implications for Gondwanan palaeobiogeography.

An articulated and partially preserved skeleton of an ichthyosaur was found in the Upper Jurassic (Upper Kimmeridgian) Katrol Formation exposed at a site south of the village Lodai in Kachchh district, Gujarat (western India). Here we present a detailed description and inferred taxonomic relationshi...

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Main Authors: Guntupalli V R Prasad, Dhirendra K Pandey, Matthias Alberti, Franz T Fürsich, Mahesh G Thakkar, Gaurav D Chauhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5656312?pdf=render