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Ichthyosaur Survival across the Jurassic–Cretaceous Boundary
January 6, 2012 | PLoSone

The PLoSone online journal has an article about Acamptonectes densus, an ichthyosaur that survived the Jurasic-Cretaceous extinction event and suggests that the event had little impact on ichthyosaurs.


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