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2. phys.org › news › 2023-03-oldest-sea-reptile-ageOldest sea reptile from Age of Dinosaurs found on Arctic island

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   Mar 13, 2023 · Fossil-bearing rocks on Spitsbergen that produce the earliest ichthyosaur remains. Credit: Benjamin Kear. Geochemical testing of the surrounding rock confirmed the age of the fossils at...

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3. www.cell.com › current-biology › fulltextEarliest Triassic ichthyosaur fossils push back oceanic ...

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   Mar 13, 2023 · Benjamin Kear and colleagues report the geologically oldest ichthyosaur fossils from ∼250 million-year-old marine deposits on Spitsbergen. These show that fully oceanic reptiles evolved earlier than previously thought and probably originated before the end-Permian mass extinction.

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   What fossils are found in Spitsbergen?

   • Placoderms and coelacanths are also found as fossils, in addition to plants and tracks from a sea scorpion. Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs have been known as fossils from Spitsbergen for more than a century. The first plesiosaur to be described was Tricleidus svalbardensis. It could probably reach a length of 10 meters.

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   Did Spitsbergen have mud?

   • The new fossils discovered on Spitsbergen are now revising this long accepted theory. Close to the hunting cabins on the southern shore of Ice Fjord in western Spitsbergen, Flower's valley cuts through snow-capped mountains, exposing rock layers that were once mud at the bottom of the sea around 250 million years ago.

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   What fossils were found in Norway?

   • The fossil found in Norway was about 10 feet long, researchers said, with advanced vertebrae. It was found amid other fossils, including those of fish, sharks and amphibians. Kerry Breen is a news editor and reporter for CBS News. Her reporting focuses on current events, breaking news and substance use.

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   What is Spitsbergen known for?

   • Spitsbergen is the largest island. Geologists have for a long time understood the archipelago’s value for science, as the sedimentological deposits covers the entire history from Precambrian metamorphic through Paleozoic and Mesozoic fossil-rich sedimentary to Cenozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks.

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5. www.cbsnews.com › news › ichthyosaur-fossils-ancientFossils of ichthyosaur, a massive ancient marine reptile ...

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   Mar 14, 2023 · The fossil was found on Spitsbergen, a Norwegian island, along the coast of a deep fjord, the Swedish and Norweigian research team said in a paper published Monday in the journal Current...

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6. www.livescience.com › worlds-oldest-ichthyosaurOldest 'fish-lizard' fossils ever found suggest these sea ...

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   Mar 17, 2023 · Researchers discovered the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur on Spitsbergen, a remote Arctic island in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway in 2014. Ichthyosaurs are an extinct, fish-like...

7. scitechdaily.com › sea-monster-from-age-ofSea Monster From Age of Dinosaurs Found on Remote Arctic Island

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   Mar 13, 2023 · Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known ichthyosaur or ‘fish-lizard’ on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Ichthyosaurs were an extinct group of marine reptiles whose fossils have been recovered worldwide.

8. www.foxweather.com › earth-space › sea-reptileOldest sea reptile remains from 2 million years ago found on ...

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   Mar 18, 2023 · Swedish and Norwegian paleontologists found fossils of the earliest known ichthyosaur on Spitsbergen after nearly 190 years of searching. 'I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT': RECORD-BREAKING DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT UNEARTHED IN ENGLAND. Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen.

9. www.nhm.uio.no › english › researchThe geology of Svalbard - Natural History Museum - UiO

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   Ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs have been known as fossils from Spitsbergen for more than a century. The first plesiosaur to be described was Tricleidus svalbardensis. It could probably reach a length of 10 meters. The well-known early ichthyosaur Grippia longirostris was first discovered from Svalbard.