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Acuetzpalin on Mexican seas

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Acuetzpalin (meaning "water lizard" in Classical Nahuatl) is an extinct genus of opthalmosaurid ichthyosaur found in La Casita Formation in México. It is known from a partial skeleton (missing the limbs), of which the skull is surprisingly well preserved. It was the first ichthyosaur described in 2020 and the first new ichthyosaur genus described since 2017
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Looks like a dolphin.