Ichthyosaur-Mother

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Stenopterygius quadriscissus

Posidonia Shale, Early Jurassic: Toarcian, approx. 180 Mio. years old
Ohmden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Ichthyosaurs are a secondary aquatic group of reptiles. They were so extensively adapted to life in the water that they could no longer go to land to lay their eggs. Therefore the young animals already hatched from the egg in the womb and were thus already born as small fish dinosaurs, as this female illustrates, in whose womb there are still seven unborn young.

SNSB-BSPG 1960 I 369
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Rundgang Fossile Saurier & Vögel

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