with its imposing size and powerful musculature

approximately 210 million years ago

The discovery of Vallibonavenatrix cani is thanks to the efforts of amateur fossil collector Juan Cano Forner

or humid steppes

being interpreted by some authors as a parallel lineage to Megaloceros

Cartorhynchus lenticarpus Hesperornis with its imposing size andCartorhynchus 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