The weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Ichthyosaurus

In 1814, Mary and Joseph Anning found the first fairly complete specimen.

In 1818, Charles Kong first used the name Ichthyosaurus, but it was not a scientific description.

In 1819, James Everard Home formally described the first Ichthyosuarus, Proteosaurus, now Temnodontosaurus.

In 1821, Henry De la Beche and William Conybeare formally named Ichthyosaurus

In 1974, after an extensive search, C. McGowan reported the initial specimen lost.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

My 2023 illustration of a mother Nannopterygius giving birth (tail first), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOoqsGk-ApAJkbcLQUtVHL2HSmytEEmaHh-e0IB_O7RcqDk-za5sw

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Transient Oasis," showing a colony of Seirocrinus crinoids drifting on deadwood.

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Playful Home Liopleurodon & Ichthyosaurus Ebay unboxing

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Geoworld skeletons & Falcarius dinosaur unboxing

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's some zooms into the packaging art for my Temnodontosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's the full packaging art and ichthyosaur pop-up for my Temnodontosaurus coin design. This was for the 2021 Mary Anning Coin Collection, from The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2021 I teamed up with The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum again to create the Mary Anning Coin Collection, the second collection from the Tales of the Earth series.

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