Auroroborealia
Name:
Auroroborealia
(Aurora Borealis).
Phonetic: Or-ror-o-bo-re-ah-le-a.
Named By: Nikolay G. Zverkov, Dmitry V.
Grigoriev, Andrzej S. Wolniewicz, Alexey G. Konstantinov
& Evgeny S. Sobolev - 2021.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Ichthyosauria.
Species: A. incognita
(type).
Diet: Piscivore?
Size: Roughly estimated between 1 and 1.5
meters long.
Known locations: Russia, New Siberian Islands.
Time period: Norian to Carnian of the Triassic.
Fossil representation: Partial and fragmentary
remains.
Auroroborealia
is a genus of small icnthyosaur
that lived during the late Triassic.
The fragmentary nature of the holotype fossils of
Auroroborealia mean
that many details of Auroroborealia are uncertain.
Auroroborealia
however seems to have been a small bodied ichthyosaur with short jaws.
Further reading
- Ichthyosaurs from the Upper Triassic (Carnian–Norian) of the
New Siberian Islands, Russian Arctic, and their implications for
the evolution of the ichthyosaurian basicranium and vertebral column.
- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh - Nikolay G. Zverkov, Dmitry V. Grigoriev,
Andrzej S. Wolniewicz, Alexey G. Konstantinov & Evgeny
S. Sobolev - 2021.
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