Parrassaurus
Parrassaurus 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, not a dinosaur. With its long snout and big eyes, it was a skilled hunter of fish and squid.12
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Parrassaurus had an extremely long snout in front of its nostrils, which helped it snap up prey.1
Its skull had a unique feature: the opening for the nostril was split into two parts by a bone from the upper jaw.1
This ichthyosaur belonged to a group called ophthalmosaurids, which had very large eyes.2
It lived about 145 million years ago, at the very end of the Jurassic Period.3
Parrassaurus was named in 2021, making it a relatively new discovery for scientists.3

Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Parrassaurus
- Izendatzailea:
- Barrientos-Lara and Alvarado-Ortega 20213
- Taldea
- Iktiosauroak
- Familia / klada
- Ophthalmosauridae3
- Sailkapena
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha3
- Arroken adina
- 145 eta 143 milioi urte artean (Tithonian)3
- Arroka-formazioak
- La Caja3
- Herrialdeak
- Mexiko3
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
- Aurkikuntza
- Parrassaurus was named in 2021 by paleontologists Jair Israel Barrientos-Lara and Jesús Alvarado-Ortega based on a skeleton found in the La Caja Formation of Coahuila, Mexico.31
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists are still debating how Parrassaurus is related to other ichthyosaurs, especially other platypterygiines from North America.1
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- A new Tithonian ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from Coahuila in northeastern Mexico (exa.ai)
- Parrassaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Parrassaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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