Fossils Of Huge Aquatic Lizard Found In San Joaquin Valley

[Kadie]

Aug 10, 2010 10:32 am US/Pacific

Fossils Of Huge Aquatic Lizard Found In SJ Valley

TURLOCK, Calif. (CBS13) ―Piece by piece, an amazing discovery is emerging from a piece of San Joaquin Valley rock and it appears to be a huge 65-million-year-old aquatic lizard from when the ocean waves used to reach the Sierra foothills.

The massive fossil is being extracted from a huge chunk of shale that was brought to CSU Stanislaus from the Panoche Hills of Fresno County.

Susan Bowman, a research intern with the US Bureau of Land Management and a CSU Stanislaus graduate in anthropology, archeology and paleontology, says the fossils appear to belong to a species of long-necked undersea carnivore known as a plesiosaur.

Bowman has extracted 28 fossilized vertebrae, rib fragments and flipper bones.

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http://cbs13.com/local/aquatic.lizard.fossils.2.1852591.html

[derby378]

1. Nessie?

[rocktivity]

3. Cecil?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Auggie]

2. Fascinating n/t

[Morning Dew]

4. I hope they name it Falfa. n/m

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Um, "lizard"? Journos need to check their taxonomy. nt