Morturneria seymourensis

  • Antarctic Plesiosaur Filtered Food Like Modern Baleen Whales
    Antarctic Plesiosaur Filtered Food Like Modern Baleen Whales0

    In 1984, Texas Tech University paleontologists Sankar Chatterjee and Bryan Small unearthed the fossilized skull of a previously unknown marine reptile on Seymour Island in Antarctica. While Morturneria seymourensis was obviously a plesiosaur, it was unlike any previously found. Now, three decades later, Professor Chatterjee and colleagues have made a new discovery about Morturneria seymourensis, one that adds a new dimension to our understanding of plesiosaurs.