Acuetzpalin
Acuetzpalin was a fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the warm seas of Mexico during the Late Jurassic. It looked a bit like a dolphin but was actually an ichthyosaur, a group of ocean predators. Its long snout was full of sharp teeth for catching fish and squid.31
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Acuetzpalin was named in 2020, making it the first new ichthyosaur genus described since 2017.1
Its skull was very well preserved, even though the rest of the skeleton was missing some parts.1
Acuetzpalin belonged to a group called ophthalmosaurids, which were the most advanced ichthyosaurs.2
It lived about 150 million years ago during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Jurassic.3
Acuetzpalin is only known from one partial skeleton, so scientists are still learning about it.1

Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Acuetzpalin
- Izendatzailea:
- Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 20203
- Taldea
- Iktiosauroak
- Familia / klada
- Ophthalmosauridae3
- Sailkapena
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha3
- Arroken adina
- 155 eta 149 milioi urte artean (Kimmeridgian)3
- Arroka-formazioak
- La Casita3
- Herrialdeak
- Mexiko3
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
- Aurkikuntza
- Acuetzpalin was discovered by students from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1979 and 1980, led by professors Oscar Carranza Castañeda and René Hernández Rivera. It was named and described by Jair Israel Barrientos-Lara and Jesús Alvarado-Ortega in 2020.23
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- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Acuetzpalin grew, because the only known skeleton is missing its tail and limbs.1
Datuak nondik datozen
- Acuetzpalin (en.wikipedia.org)
- Acuetzpalin carranzai gen et sp. nov. A new ophthalmosauridae (Ichthyosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Durango, North Mexico (sciencedirect.com)
- Acuetzpalin in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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