Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China

The holotype of Spatulidentatus breviceps. Image credit: Yang et al., doi: 10.16509/j.georeview.2025.11.052.

A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China.

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