Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Kronosaurus Recent studies and phylogenetic revisions

Recent studies and phylogenetic revisions published in the last decade position it as a key taxon for understanding how the elaborate cranial structures that characterize the more derived ceratopsians of the Late Campanian arose

The exact reasons for their extinction are not entirely clear

This reconsideration would place it closer to a line of giant terrestrial birds

hace aproximadamente 150 millones de años

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Kronosaurus Recent studies and phylogenetic revisionsCartorhynchus lenticarpus is an extinct species of primitive marine reptile belonging to the Ichthyosauriformes clade, recognized as one of the most basal representatives of this group that would later give rise to the classic ichthyosaurs of the Mesozoic. Its only known specimen was formally described by Ryosuke Motani and colleagues in 2014 from a nearly complete skeleton found in the Nanlinghu Formation , near Chaohu, Anhui Province (China) , and