
Wahlisaurus massarae is a British ichthyosaur that lived 200 million years ago
An article published in “Journal of Systematic Palaeontology” describes the identification of a new spiecie of ichthyosaur, a group of marine reptiles that lived in the Mesozoic Era. Called Wahlisaurus massarae, the only known specimen lived in the Lower Jurassic period, about 200 million years ago, in today’s Nottinghamshire, England.