who discovered the remnants of the animals mentioned at the beginning?
Four students and a technician from the geology department.
Acamptonectes
Over a series of weekends in 1958, four students and a technician from the geology department of Hull University collected an ichthyosaur (or "fish lizard", a Mesozoic group of marine reptiles) specimen from the Speeton Clay Formation of Speeton in northern England.
what is acamptonectes? It is an extinct genus of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur. what did they eat? Fish and squid. where were their fossils discovered? England and Germany. to which period did these fossils date back to? Early Cretaceous period. what was the geology like during that period? Large igneous provinces. which ores are deposited in it? UNANSWERABLE is any meteorite believed to have struck there? No.
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Acamptonectes [SEP] History of discovery
Over a series of weekends in 1958, four students and a technician from the geology department of Hull University collected an ichthyosaur (or "fish lizard", a Mesozoic group of marine reptiles) specimen from the Speeton Clay Formation of Speeton in northern England. It was transferred to the Hunterian Museum of the University of Glasgow in 1991, when the geology department of Hull University was closed, where it was catalogued as specimen GLAHM 132855 (it was also known as the "Speeton Clay ichthyosaur"). It consists of a partial skeleton of an adult, including a fragmentary skull roof, a mandible, the axial skeleton, and the scapular girdle.