Re: Sea reptile is biggest on record

[Jean-Michel BENOIT <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

Thnaks to everybody who answered my question..
23m, that's the one.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel


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Quoting Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>:

> Quoting Jean-Michel BENOIT <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>:
>
> > What about this giant Ichtyosaur found a few years ago in NA   (Canada, I 
> > think)?
> > Still no publication?
>
> I suspect you mean _Shonisaurus sikanniensis_, from northeastern
> British Columbia.  It has been published:
>
> Nicholls, Elizabeth L., and Makoto Manabe.  2004.  Giant Ichthyosaurs
> Of The Triassic--A New Species Of Shonisaurus From The Pardonet
> Formation (Norian: Late Triassic) of British Columbia.  Journal of
> Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 838-849.

There is also Betsy Nicholls' 23 meter long Pink Mountain ichthyosaur
that is housed at the Royal Tyrrell. I do not know how much work has
been done on it since she passed though.



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