A new upper jurassic ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet formation of central Spitsbergen.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Aubrey Jane Roberts, Patrick Scott Druckenmiller, Glenn-Peter Sætre, Jørn Harald Hurum
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Agardhfjellet; Norway; Slottsmøya; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Lundi; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0103152; https://doaj.org/article/bdb3f73658154bf8bbc40433959d7517

Abundant new ichthyosaur material has recently been documented in the Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation from the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. Here we describe a partial skeleton of a new taxon, Janusaurus lundi, that includes much of the skull and representative portions of the pos...