 Since the specimen was too fragile to expose the interior of the jaws, Jian-Dong Huang, Motani, and other colleagues subsequently scanned and rendered the specimen in 3D using micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), performed at the Yinghua Testing Company in Shanghai, China.In 2020, results from their follow-up work were published in "Scientific Reports".At the time of its discovery, "Cartorhynchus" was the smallest-known member of the Ichthyosauriformes.