I'm sticking with the marine reptile painting theme for Fossil Friday. Here's an old acrylic painting of #Liopleurodon and #Metriorhynchus, called "Killing Breach".

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It's #FossilFriday!

Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops

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It's #FossilFriday!

Here are some zooms into my "Deep Blue Buffet" painting (Part 1), for The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of species from the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The #SeaRex" (probably #Pliosaurus), #Hybodus, #Hypsocormus, #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus, and lots of #Allothrissops.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Pliosaur #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

NEW ARTWORK TO START 2026

Here is "Deep Blue Buffet," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features a bunch of fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay: a dead sauropod, "The Sea Rex" (probably Pliosaurus), Hybodus, Hypsocormus, Metriorhynchus, Aspidorhynchus, and lots of Allothrissops.

#SciArt #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Art #MarineReptiles #Pliosaur #Pliosaurus #SeaRex #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Hybodus #Hypsocormus #Metriorhynchus, #Aspidorhynchus #Allothrissops

The fossilised lower jaw of a sea 'croc', Metriorhynchus, from the Jurassic Oxford Clay of the UK. If you want to see it for yourself, this specimen is now on show in the 'Snappy Families' display case in our 'Discovering Dinosaurs' gallery.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2011 I created a bunch of models for the Leicester New Walk Museum. Here is the scale model of the marine crocodile, Metriorhynchus (the leathery skin armour was unwise, it is too easy to interpret as scutes).

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