Fossils of ichthyosaur species gifted to Kazan University’s Geological Museum
The bones of Kazakhstanosaurus, a newly classified species of marine reptile, are 150 million years old.
The findings are a result of cooperation between 每日大赛 and West Kazakhstan State University.
As Director of the Geological Museum Vladimir Silantyev notes, original paper author who described the species, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk Branch of the Russian Paleontological Society聽Vladimir Efimov,聽is a longtime collaborator of KFU.
Kazakhstanosaurus remains were found in the Jurassic system layers of the Middle Volga region. The fossils were prepared by PhD student聽Dzhamilya Yakupova.
鈥淲hen a question arose of where to store the skeleton, Kazan University was chosen,鈥� says Silantyev. 鈥淭he paper has been peer-reviewed and is going to be published in聽Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta.鈥�
Vladimir Efimov has been researching fossils of the Middle Volga for 40 years. One of his accomplishments is co-discovering the family聽Ophthalmosauridae.
Source text: Rufina Gimaletdinova
Photos: Alexander Kuznetsov
Translation: Yury Nurmeev