Spoon-Toothed, Short-Headed Marine Reptile Unearthed in China
A new genus and species of sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Triassic period, some 245 million years ago, has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in China. The holotype of Spatulidentatus breviceps. Image credit: Yang et al., doi: 10.16509/j.georeview.2025.11.052. Sauropterygians were a highly successful lineage of paddling marine reptiles that developed from…