Calling the discovery a major paleontological breakthrough, Dean of the Faculty of Earth System Science at Jodhpur's Jai Narain Vyas University, VS Parihar, on Monday, stated that after England, India is the only country to make a Jurassic-era discovery.
European scientists, while studying the fossils of a marine lizard found back in 1978 in the city of Holzmaden in southern Germany, discovered that it belongs to a new, previously unexplored species of plesiosaurs. This was reported on August 4 in an article in the scientific journal PeerJ.