Then we have the marine animals
#Basilosaurus Built to move its tail properly
#Mosasaurus #Tylosaurus with their feet alongside their bodies to allow them to swim
#Plesiosaurus #Elasmosaurus with their long necks and flippers out to the side
#Cryptoclidus #Kronosaurus
#Itchyosaurus #Shonisaurus
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Diramix Shonisaurus unboxing

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Group of Shonisaurus popularis, a giant Late Triassic ichthyosaur, in their birthing grounds
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This is an illustration I was commissioned to do for a new research paper by Neil P. Kelley and colleagues that has been JUST published in Current Biology! My illustration also made the cover!!! The paper is titled: “Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator”

#ichthyosaur #shonisaurus #marinereptiles #currentbiology

Two drawings of #ichthyosaurs. The giant Late #Triassic #Shonisaurus, accompanied by a couple of hybodont sharks, and the dolphin-sized Early #Jurassic #Stenopterygius. #palaeoart