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Not many vertebrates are known from the Late Triassic Norian stage in Western North America: Shastasaurus (or Shonisaurus) sikkaniensis from the Pardonet formation of British Columbia was the largest marine reptile ever found. Gunakadeit was an odd thalattosaur from Alaska.

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2023-02-27

Sketch and closeups. I used Scott Hartman’s 2016 Shonisaurus as ref, pterosaurs are quasi Carniadactylus AND THE ECTOPARASITES ARE SPECULATIVE. We don’t have direct evidence that they hosted any, but I figure slower ones might have less invasive barnacle-like creatures on em

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2023-01-20

New to the (public) internet for from 2018, the entirety of my rising Shonisaurus popularis scene. The idea is that these animals are hunting cooperatively and corraling squid, hence the leftmost animal swallowing down a tentacley meal.

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2022-07-01

I hear that you like rock climbing, so you’ll appreciate what the scientists who found the largest marine reptile in history halfway up a mountain in the Canadian wilderness had to endure! After 3 years, the 69-foot-long (nice) Shonisaurus was finally excavated!

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2022-05-22

Skull details are mostly based from Guanlingsaurus liangae and Shastasaurus pacificus, early I tried to fit these on Shonisaurus but turned out to be more different in many aspects, which was one of the reasons why I dropped the attempt of making it Shoni base as people often do

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2022-01-24

Bringing this one back for
My other Triassic stuff is a bit older
Shringasaurus (Sep 2017)
Shonisaurus (Dec 2017)
Atopodentatus (May 2016)
Coelophysis (October 2014)

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2021-07-26

A salute to ichthyosaurs this splendid beasts that I've had an excuse to restore several times recently. Marine reptiles are really fun to draw and these have been a blast to work on. Here's Temnodontosaurus, Ichthyosaurus, Shonisaurus and Leptonectes.

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2021-06-18

Results from the
Irritator, Microcleidus, Actigavialis and Shonisaurus (not dead just feeding)

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2021-04-10

Here are my sketches from today. Microcleidus, Aktiogavialis, and Shonisaurus death pogging

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2021-04-10

Finally caught my first I only really made it in time to draw a Shonisaurus, but I would love to do more in the future.

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2021-04-10

For todays on the we did Irritator, FLAT FUCK, hydra aktiogavialis, and screming shonisaurus.

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2021-04-10

“Mosasaurs or plesiosaurs???” 😤😡

Neither, Shonisaurus supremacy 😎

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2021-03-31

Overosaurus, Horned Gophers, Outdated Shonisaurus, Chasmosaurus

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2021-03-10

Shonisaurus sikanniensis was one of the largest ichthyosaurs that ever swam the Triassic seas. This whale-sized marine reptile could reach close to 70ft in length and it's fossils were found here in British Columbia!

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2021-02-01

Okay this is a super fun art meme, I don't cringe as much at my old art but...those ones sure are something lmao
Too lazy to tag this time though lmao

Yutyrannus (Nov 2012, second digital piece)
Baryonyx+Iguanodon (Dec 2012)
Shonisaurus (Jan 2013)
Gorgosaurus (May 2013) https://t.co/JKo1ckQhNx

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2021-01-21

Shonisaurus was one of the biggest marine reptiles of all time. Ichthyosaurus gave its name to the entire group. Get this two-sticker set in a single sheet, or packs up to five sheets.

https://t.co/6GUabZ3AWv

Illustration by Greco Westermann

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2021-01-11

we could make one out of a shonisaurus, its not a dinosaur but its big n squat enough

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2020-12-19

It’s so here’s a…

Wait a minute. That’s not a whale!

This is a giant ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaurs were the first truly gigantic animals to evolve. The largest skeleton is 21 metres long and belongs to the Triassic species, Shonisaurus sikanniensis.

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2020-11-12

Just a fucking unsense battle, featuring Spinosaurus and Shonisaurus!

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2020-05-03

Spent the morning reading about maximum body size in marine tetrapods, and how baleen whales achieve their remarkable size because of awesome feeding efficiency. Sorry folks, blue whale-sized marine reptiles are very unlikely: Shonisaurus et al. are likely as big as they got.

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2020-04-06