posted on Jan, 29 2023 @ 05:59 PM
This thread may be 20 years old, but the scientific paper from 2003 reporting on the ichthyosaur discovery in southern Chile can be found here:
pubs.geoscienceworld.org...
In spring of last year, an
ichthyosaur specimen nicknamed
Fiona was found in the Tyndall Glacier area of Chilean Patagonia within the boundaries of the Torres del Paine National Park. Given that the
taxon
Myobradypterygius (usually synonymized with
Platypterygius, although a
2015 thesis finds it distinct from the type species of
Platypterygius) is
recorded from Chile, it is now apparent that platypterygiine ichthyosaurs were widespread in coastal and epipelagic waters surrounding Patagonia and
western Europe by the Hauterivan-Aptian interval.
Pardo Perez, J.M. (2015).
Ichthyosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Barremian) from the western border of the Tyndall Glacier in the
Torres del Paine National Park, Southernmost Chile. Ph.D. Dissertation, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg.