• DOI:10.1017/s0016756819001225
Corpus ID: 210267260

New information on the skull roof of Protoichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) and intraspecific variation in some dermal skull elements

@article{Lomax2020NewIO,
  title={New information on the skull roof of Protoichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) and intraspecific variation in some dermal skull elements},
  author={Dean R Lomax and Judy A. Massare and M. Evans},
  journal={Geological Magazine},
  year={2020},
  volume={157},
  pages={640-650}
}

Dean R Lomax, Judy A. Massare, +1 author M. Evans

Published 2020

Biology

Geological Magazine

A previously unrecognized specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis , LEICT G142.1991, from the Lower Jurassic of Barrow-upon-Soar, Leicestershire, UK, includes an almost complete three-dimensional skull that provides new information on the configuration of the skull roof. The position of the pineal foramen (between the frontals and the parietals) and an elongated internasal foramen in a depression along the midline of the nasals are clearly shown. The maxilla makes up a significant portion of… CONTINUE READING

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