Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Variant:Hand-painted The belli species was named

The belli species was named after paleontologist Charles H

Sarcosuchus

based on an exceptionally preserved partial skull from the Cloverly Formation (Early Cretaceous

Sternum and musculature

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Variant:Hand-painted The belli species was namedCartorhynchus 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