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are strange animals indeed...

'Platypterygius' americanus UW 2421, scanned by , modelled by yours truly. That specimen was described by A.S. Romer in 1968!

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2020-02-29

Found this interesting block of bone at Charmouth yesterday... looks like a row of Ichthyosaur verts and ribs.

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2020-02-09

I don't think I've ever seen an ichthyosaur muscle reconstruction, so thought I'd spend a few moments on one this morning... I've emerged from the rabbit hole hours later with this take on Ophthalmosaurus myology (drawn over skeletal McGowan and Motani 2003)

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2020-01-13

Ichthyosaurus communis raw model done for & at Make sure to pay them a visit at their booth tomorrow!

More of this animal at our arstation: https://t.co/gacRou50xO

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2020-01-04

Results from the
Morrosaurus, Besanosaurus and Dinocarcinus (just published by et al)

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2019-12-28

Hypothetical Walking With Dinosaurs II art: Episode 2, Blue Lias Formation, England, 199 million years ago.
From top left: Plesiosaurus, Temnodontosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Dimorphodon, Scelidosaurus, Sarcosaurus, Palaeospinax, Coroniceras.

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2019-09-23

Half-Life/Half-Life/Art/Creatures/Ichthyosaur/ichy1.jpg
Found in folder: https://t.co/j5FykE0OyE

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2019-09-23

19th century
Two marsupials pause on the spidery roots of a pandanus tree to watch ichthyosaur and plesiosaur prepare for battle. The scene, an for The Popular Encyclopedia (1888), features elements from several engravings by Riou.

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2019-08-30

August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare dies in Hampshire. In 1821 he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus, made also important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️

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2019-08-12

May 21, 1799, of Mary “the Princess of Carpenter daughter, she founded a fossil business in Lyme Regis, Dorset, making important discoveries like complete fossils of Ichthyosaurus 🐬 & Plesiosaurus 🐉 https://t.co/xuWRaNkOh3
✍ by

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2019-05-21

More sketches of Mesozoic marine reptiles for a commission for the , and Marine reptiles are always so much fun to reconstruct, no matter how many times I have reconstructed them. It is nice to go back to mosasaurs too

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2019-05-15

Hello 600 twitter followers :)
I updated my Ichthyosaurus, mostly adding definition to the environment and waves. “Hey y’all, prepare yourself, for the rubberband man”

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2019-04-26

Some fun Ichthyosaurus art to make up for the fact I missed the bus today. This art is best accompanied by the song “Rubberband Man”.

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2019-04-24

The coloration is based on recent data indicating countershading in ichthyosaurs, which while not surprising is still really cool. I mainly looked at modern dolphins for inspiration, as their skin is the closest analog.

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2019-04-09

Getting up-close & personal with a beautiful specimen of the Stenopterygius from the Early Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany on display Close-ups on the teeth, sclerotic ring (eye supporting bones) and forefin (with dark preserved skin outline)

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2019-03-08

Continuing my theme of marine reptiles for today’s here is Chaohusaurus, an early ichthyosauriform known to have been viviparous. A beautiful fossil of this sp is shows a female in the act of giving birth. These are also for my in-prep book

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2019-03-07

ichthyosaur are so cool i love them. swimmy lizard friends.

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2019-02-18