[Rockhounds] Ichthyosaur fossil found in Nevada named for brewery founder

Paul etchplain at att.net
Sat Jan 15 20:37:41 PST 2022


Ichthyosaur fossil found in Nevada named for brewery founder
Jim Krajewski, Reno Gazette Journal, Jan. 11, 2022
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2022/01/11/ichthyosaur-fossil-found-reno-nevada-now-named-brewery-founder/9137810002/

Central Nevada ichthyosaur fossil reveals surprising information
KOLO, Channel 8, Nevada, Dec. 25, 2021
https://www.kolotv.com/2021/12/25/central-nevada-ichthyosaur-fossil-reveals-surprising-information/

Papers are:

Delsett, L.L. and Pyenson, N.D., 2021. Early and fast
rise of Mesozoic ocean giants. Science, 374(6575), pp.1554-1555.

Sander, P.M., Griebeler, E.M., Klein, N., Juarbe, J.V.,
Wintrich, T., Revell, L.J. and Schmitz, L., 2021.
  Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body
  size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans. Science, 374(6575), p.eabf5787.

Related paper is:

Kelley, N.P., Motani, R., Embree, P. and Orchard,
M.J., 2016. A new Lower Triassic ichthyopterygian
assemblage from Fossil Hill, Nevada. PeerJ, 4, p.e1626.
https://peerj.com/articles/1626/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4741062/

Yours,

Paul H.


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