Middle Jurassic plesiosaur from the Mezen syneclise. Expedition-2023

In June, a joint field crew of the Institute of Geology of the Komi Scientific Center and the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) dug out an 80 % complete semi-articulated skeleton of a new plesiosaur. The marine reptile lived in the Bathonian age of the Jurassic period (ca. 168-165 Ma). This is a unique paleontological find for this age, and already the second one in the region. Last summer, another nearly complete plesiosaur skeleton was collected from the Pechora Syneclise.