Ichthyotitan severnensis
Ichthyotitan severnensis
Period
Location
Europe
Length
nearly 25 metres
Weight
unknown
Diet
Carnivore
Category
Family
Ichthyosauridae
About Ichthyotitan severnensis
Ichthyotitan is the only shastasaurid and giant ichthyosaur to be known from the Rhaetian, found in the fossil record 13 million years after their relatives. The lineage is believed to have gone extinct immediately after in the TriassicβJurassic extinction event, with later ichthyosaurs never reaching similar sizes until their extinction in the early Late Cretaceous.
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