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Hello, I saw this "Saurorhynchus" fish skull from Holzmaden for sale today and wondered if theres any chance for it beeing an Ichthyosaur skull. I have no experience with them, so someone else has to identify it. Thanks !
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Saurorhynchus jaw, from the lower jurassic of Germany. -
Probably Saurorhynchus brevirostris (Woodward, 1895) References: A. S. Woodward (1895) Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III 1-544. Maxwell, Erin & Stumpf, Sebastian. (2017) Revision of Saurorhynchus (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) from the Early Jurassic of England and Germany. European Journal of Taxonomy. 2017. 10.5852/ejt.2017.321.
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A 6 cm long Saurorhynchus jaw from the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden (Lower Jurassic, Posidonia Shale). -
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A 6bcm long Saurorhynchus (?) jaw from the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden (Lower Jurassic, Posidonia Shale). Next to it is a beautiful pyritized bivalve. Another picture: -
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A 7 cm long Saurorhynchus (?) lower jaw from the quarry Kromer in Holzmaden (Lower Jurassic, Posidonia Shale). A detailed pictures of the teeth: -
Saurorhynchus acutus (Agassiz, 1844) rostropremaxilla. Lower Jurassic, Mulgrave Shale Member (bed 42), Falciferum Subzone. Near Whitby, Yorkshire. I spotted this little fish rostrum when I was looking for belemnites a couple of weeks ago. It was about to flake off the outcrop and I hadn't found anything else interesting so I brought it home as a consolation prize. After some research, it seems it's very rare here. The only recorded specimens I can find are a few (5?) 19th century ones, including the holotype which is also just a jaw. Other workers at the time (Tate & Blake) doubted their Yorkshire provenance, assuming them to have been from the Dorset Lower Lias, sold by dealers - a similar species is quite well known from there. Here's a very recent paper: Saurorhynchus revision. It is a lot more common in Germany, with more complete material. I prepped its hidden teeth today - 5 hours with a scalpel under a x20 binocular microscope. I think an air abrader would have blown them away. As found:
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