Longitud hocico-cola 97 mm

Paleoambiente y fauna asociada

capable of reaching the highest leaves and branches of trees

aunque sostenido por extremidades robustas

Length 241 mm

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Scale:1:1 Longitud hocico-cola 97 mmCartorhynchus lenticarpus is an extinct species of primitive marine reptile belonging to the Ichthyosauriformes clade, recognized as one of the most basal representatives of this group that would later give rise to the classic ichthyosaurs of the Mesozoic. Its only known specimen was formally described by Ryosuke Motani and colleagues in 2014 from a nearly complete skeleton found in the Nanlinghu Formation , near Chaohu, Anhui Province (China) , and