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First Jurassic-era ‘fish lizard’ fossil found in India
October 27 , 2017
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- For the first time in the fossil history of India, the remains of a 150 million-year-old fossil of Ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile were discovered in Kutch in Gujarat by a team of Indian and German scientists.
- The 5.5-metre-long fossil of Ichthyosaur, is thought to belong to the Ophthalmosauridae family, which likely lived between around 165 and 90 million years ago.
- The fossil was found inside rocks from the Mesozoic Era, which ran between 252 and 66 million years ago, in the Kutch desert and its tooth wear patterns suggests that it was top-tier predator in its ecosystem and ate animals.
- It is the first Jurassic ichthyosaur found in India. It has been found in Americas, Australia and Europe and it’s the second significant fossil discovery in India this year.
- The oldest plant fossil in India, red algae from the Chitrakoot region in Madhya Pradesh, believed to be 1.6 billion years old was discovered earlier.
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