While velociraptors and tyrannosaurus rexes were known as fearsome predators on land, pliosaurs were deadly underwater creatures.
It’s one of the best fossils I’ve worked on.
The lower jaw and the upper skull are meshed together, as they would be in life.
Worldwide, there’s hardly any specimens ever found to that level of detail.
There are other features aside from its sharp fangs that make the pliosaur so adept at hunting.
There is also a hole on the head for a third eyea trait shared by many present-day reptiles.
With increasing erosion, the team hopes to find signs of other bones over the next few years.
People can see the pliosaur skull in person at The Etches Collection from January 2, 2024.
A 150-million-year-old fossil of a pliosaur skull was recovered from the Jurassic Coast in the UK.
We have been keeping a, not so little secret!
A privilege to spend time with Steve Etches@TEC_Kimmeridge.
The Dorset fossil collector has just bagged an extraordinary discovery the complete skull of a Jurassic pliosaur.
