Tag Archive for 'Placodontia'

The holotype of Spatulidentatus breviceps. Image credit: Yang et al., doi: 10.16509/j.georeview.2025.11.052.

Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China

Aug 20, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly...

View of the cliff face at Lavernock Point from the east end of the beach, showing the red mudstones of the Williton Member (Mercia Mudstone Formation) transitioning upwards into the interbedded shales of the Westbury Formation. Image credit: Evans et al., doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2024.05.001.

205-Million-Year-Old Bone Bed Sheds Light on History of Dinosaurs in Wales

May 30, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-discovered Late Triassic bone bed at Lavernock, South Wales, represents a storm deposit that preserves a rich coastal marine assemblage with...

Life reconstruction of Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis depicted in the Early Triassic shallow marine environment of the Nanzhang-Yuan’an region, Hubei Province, South China. Image credit: Wolniewicz et al., doi: 10.7554/eLife.83163.

Triassic Armored Marine Reptile Unearthed in China

Aug 14, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

The newly-described saurosphargid reptile Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis represents the earliest known occurrence of its clade. Life reconstruction of...