A new #plesiosaur from the Jurassic of Germany https://muzeumewolucji.pl/?p=6554&lang=en

Exquisite skeletons of a new transitional plesiosaur fill gap in the evolutionary history of plesiosauroids https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2024.1341470/full

"It lived during the late #Toarcian (∼175 Mya), near the onset of an Early–Middle #Jurassic turnover of marine reptiles. #Franconiasaurus displays an intriguing combination of characters of early and later-diverging #plesiosaurs."