The mystery has haunted paleontologists for decades: What explains a fossilized mass death event in the rocks of the West Union Canyon in Nevada? Even more mysterious: Why are the victims all large predatory marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs that swam the seas while dinosaurs walked the earth?
One research team says in a paper published Monday in the journal Current Biology that this enigma in stone has finally been solved.
The reptilian graveyard was once a habitat for whale-size ichthyosaur Shonisaurus popularis. Some 230 million years ago, it was “this shallow tropical ocean,” said Randall Irmis, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah and an author of the study. “Now we’re in the middle of the Great Basin in the high desert, at the foothills of the Shoshone Mountains.
https://tnewsline.com/2022/12/19/science/something-about-this-mysterious/
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