What is it about?
This skull bone is rarely preserved anywhere close to this complete, so it went completely unrecognised for what it was - even to Liopleurodon specialists.
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Why is it important?
Despite belonging to a large suspension-feeding fish, Leedsichthys bones are commonly misidentified as dinosaur bones (most commonly - but not exclusively - stegosaur), but it is highly unusual for a bone to be misttributed the other way - to Leedsichthys.
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This page is a summary of: The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon, Geological Magazine, July 2003, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756803007829.
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