Claim: A large microcleidid, about three to five meters long, with a small head, long and slender neck, wide turtle-like body, short tail, and two pairs of large, elongated paddles considered to be part of the Toarcian ( a geologic timescale, a stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic) age was discovered in Württemberg, Germany.
Evidence: Lyme Regis, Dorset, England