#Pliosaurus kevani

[palaeoplushies]

hey! when do you think the pliosaurus kevani will be restocked? I love those buggers to bits but i missed the last time they were available ;n; no rush of course, just mostly curious when restocks occur.

Maybe in the next month or so? They come back every so often for sure, they're one of my favourites!

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Here is Maud Pie with the skull of The Weymouth Bay Pliosaur.

In Dorchester Museum, in Dorset, England.

[albertonykus]

What is the largest jurassic pliosaur currently?

I don’t follow the literature on plesiosaurs very closely, but last I heard the leading contenders were Pliosaurus funkei and Pliosaurus kevani, per Benson et al. (2013).

[dragonthunders01]

Well about 3 years ago in 2016 I had bought a sketchbook to make drawings, and for the first time and as a start, I decided to create different sketches of dinosaur head portraits and several other clades related including squamates birds and whatever extinct clade, together forming a parade of diapsids since for that at that moment in time I did not tend to do much paleoart, an attempt to do it by hand without exact references except those that I could remember in my head, a first attempt that wasn't that good, but was something. From there I kept the original page saved while improving with my artistic skills, eventually it had occurred to me to take the page again and rework in the heads, adding and correcting details and also incorporating other species, eventually ending up with something much more varied and complex. At first I was thinking of simply sharing it as a pencil drawing without any other modifications like the previous version, however, I felt it was not really enough to be shared considering that I could do something better or at least decent using digital, so for several weeks I had started painting, changing some misinterpretation of certain animals features and if it was necessary to modify a complete outline if it was not right. And so I ended up creating this new version better prepared, painted and more details, it has also allowed me to practice and experiment with a wider range of textures including scales that I had created for a long time or by hand in drawing, added with photoshop of textures or simply drawn which although it was easy, that not always ended with a good look result, as well as new patterns of colors and mixtures for some dinosaurs. I'm going to leave a list of the species added if people want to known which species is, with a image labeled to locate them. As well some comments on specific species

1) Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex)

2) Diamond firetail (Stagonopleura guttata) I would say I started trying just to draw a random finch due to the conversation on discord with friends but eventually I had to choose a specific species, a good friend suggested me this finch in particular.

3) Kelenken guillermoi Have to say this was the animal that suffered the most transformations since the original drawing as I've changed of sources over time, even though the coloration I nailed the coloration well

4) Deinonychus antirrhopus I tried to experiment with spot patter considering the type of environment that this theropod inhabited, despite the fact that certain colorations of birds of prey fits well for them, thought that different lifestyles would likely make this dromaeosaur coloration not like a bird of prey, so I started to see possible references, feline being the closest and based on certain types of tropical forest/swamp felines.

5) Champsosaurus

6) Tylosaurus pembinensis

7) Tyrannosaurus rex Just to make it clear, it has feathers but they are so thin and small they dont render well

8) Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus): I did this because it is a wonderful bird, some time ago at 10 years old my family had had and even raised some generations of these small birds

9) Yi qi

10) Quetzalcoatlus sp.

11) Broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris)

12) Spinosaurus Before somebody try to start discussing about the lip topic I clarify this is experimental and speculative intent as I've done with another drawing of what it would look like if it had oral tissue around it, pretty much based on the Pike conger eels.

13) Lambeosaurus magnicristatu

14) Dimorphodon

15) Skorpiovenator

16) Deinocheirus

17) Citipati sp. Based from the good unnamed specimen MPC-D 100/42

18) Darwinopterus Originally it was supposed to be a Pterodactylus, however I had mistaken reconstruction of the skull being in fact this sketch based on a Wukongopterid. Coloracion is an "easter egg" of a pal suggestion quite fond of this group of flying animals.

19) Allosaurus fragilis

20) Euoplocephalus

21) Hypsilophodon

22) Tanystropheus

23) Dilophosaurus

24) Tuatara (Sphenodon)

25) Giraffatitan

26) Erythrosuchus

27) Scleromochlus

28) Rutiodon

29) Chasmosaurus kaiseni

30) Green iguana (Iguana iguana) This would be the first animal in the whole parade that I painted scales, after I tried only to use a spray brush that did not work out the way I wanted to, I just made the base picture dark tone and start with a light color to paint the individual scales, I feel good in how this it ended up being.

31) Pelagornis

32) Green Tree Python (Morelia viridis)

33) Pliosaurus kevani

34) Henodus

35) Diplodocus

36) Ophthalmosaurus

37) Pteranodon longiceps

38) Stagonolepis

39) Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis)

40) Anurognathus

41) Mexican mole lizard (Bipes biporus)

42) Silesaurus

43) Petrolacosaurus

44) Shringasaurus

45) Hyperodapedon

46) Teyujagua

47) Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus

[ancientmarinereptiles]

Pliosaurus almanzaensis, P. brachydeirus, P. brachyspondylus, P. carpenteri, P. funkei, P. kevani, P. macromerus, P. patagonicus, P. portentificus, P. rossicus, P. westburyensis

Art by: Mark Witton, http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2019/01/plesiosaurs-on-rocks-terrestrial.html#links

Name: Pliosaurus almanzaensis, P. brachydeirus, P. brachyspondylus, P. carpenteri, P. funkei, P. kevani, P. macromerus, P. patagonicus, P. portentificus, P. rossicus, P. westburyensis

Name Meaning: ‬More lizard

First Described: 1841

Described By: Owen

Classification: Chordata, Tetrapoda, Reptilia, ‬Sauropterygia,‭ ‬Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae, Thalassophonea

Pliosaurus was an apex predator that roamed the seas of the Late Jurassic. Pliosaurus most likely hunted other marine reptiles of its time like Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs and even giant fish back in the day. As you can see, there are many species of Pliosaurus. If you don’t know, P. funkei was once known as the infamous “Predator X”. The size of this particular species was exaggerated to be 49 feet (15 meters), but once it was properly reconstructed, its new approximate size is estimated to be 33 to 43 feet (10-13 meters).

Sources:

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/p/pliosaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliosaurus

[palaeoplushies]

I made some Pliosaurs my dudes. www.palaeoplushies.com

[palaeoplushies]

Look at this! They’ve gone home to see their big brother! If you can’t make it to Dorset County Museum, the few that remained with me can still be purchased through my website here!

[palaeoplushies]

Okay so my last post seemed to have been eaten but in short, these lot are for sale after ToyCon. I have Thylacines, Citipati, Pliosaurus kevani and P. funkei! They will be posted this week, but anything else from my shop will be posted next week when I'm back in Scotland. Buy the, here- www.palaeoplushies.com/store

[palaeoplushies]

Do you make any other fish?

Here is a list of all fish I make currently, in no particular order:

Actinopterygii - Ray finned fish

SiluriformesCorydoras pygmaeusCorydoras sterbaiCorydoras aeneusOtocinclus sp.

PerciformesBetta splendens-Cichlids (coming soon)Mikrogeophagus ramireziCichlasoma festaeCynotilapia afraPseudotropheus saulosiThorichthys meekiGeophagus sp.

Polypteriformes (coming soon)Polypterus palmas

Sarcopterygii- Lobe Finned Fish

TetrapodomorphaTiktaalik roseae

-SauropterygiaPliosaurus funkeiPliosaurus kevaniPlesiosaurus dolichodeirus-MosasauroideaTylosaurus proriger

-IchthyosauriaIchthyosaurus communisStenopterygius sp.Temnodontosaurus platyodon

-CrocodylomorphsMetriorhynchus superciliosus

-Pterosauria Quetzalcoatlus (in hiatus)Rhamphorhynchus (in hiatus)

-DinosauriaCitipati osmolskaeVelociraptor mongoliensis (in hiatus)Dakotaraptor (Saurian backer exclusive)Archaeopteryx (Kickstarter!)Brachiosaurus (in hiatus)Microraptor (in hiatus)

-MammaliaThylacinus cynocephalus (Coming soon)

There’s probably a bunch more I’ve forgotten but these are all the “official” Palaeoplushies I’ve made up to this point. I was going to stop when I reached Tiktaalik but I like Tetrapod fish too much.

[palaeoplushies]

I’ve just added some big 68cm P. kevani to my online shop! These are the first of the new design I’ve got available online, the rest of this batch have gone to be sold at Dorset County Museum which holds the only known specimen of P. kevani!

I also have some large and small Pliosaurus funkei, if you prefer the slightly “nastier” Predator X.

If you’re sick to death of Pliosaurs, how about a Mosasaurid? Tylosaurus says hi!

[palaeoplushies]

Now for sale in my shop!

Lots of Otos! These guys are the first to be made from the fabric I designed and had printed. They’re based off of photographs of one of my fish, so the patterns are real! Even the little gills! I’ve also got some marine reptiles: Two Pliosaurus kevani - These two are the last of their kind! I’ve re-designed their pattern, so future P. kevani will be slightly different, but I’m still rather fond of this one, being the second ever Palaeoplushie I designed and made!

Two Stenopterygius - With realistic colouration! Some Ichthyosaurs have been found to be uniformly dark in colouration. These two have striking purple eyes!