#plesiosaur

[chameleocoonj]

*draws two theropods in a row* SHIT okay hold on whats the most opposite thing i can do... ah, chunky little spiky guy!! there we go B)

[earlypalaeoart]

Sketch for the ‘Royal Hammerers’ coat of arms (the Geological Survey of Great Britain) by William Hellier Baily, 1849

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932705000761

[adigitalsky]

dusk settling over the ocean, a long long time ago

[lowpolyanimals]

Lapras from Hey You, Pikachu!

[plusie]

🐟 - prehistoric marine animals

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Surprised nobody has made this joke yet

Plesiosaur grindset

[sketchy-as-fork]

River of Souls

[macaronichewtoyz]

New beast just dropped !!

[mjhartwork]

acrylic painting of a hydrothermal vent with an abyssosaurus

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Results from the Christmas eve #paleostream, on which we covered recent discoveries from this December.

Unktaheela, Yechilacerta, Bustingorrytitan and Meilifeilong

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Have some nice holidays!

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Pleather is made from plesiosaur skin, and contributed to their extinction during the pleather fashion craze of the 1970s.

[chameleocoonj]

morturneria, atopodentatus, comptonatus, trigonosaurus

[anomallite]

Explore the wonders of the Mesozoic with these National Park posters! Now available on my Inprnt Store

[kinerus]

A dino a day #3: plesiosaurus

[boobookittenartblog]

Attenborosaurus

Attenborosaurus is an extinct genus of pliosaurid from the Early Jurassic of Dorset, England. The type species is A. conybeari. The genus is named after David Attenborough

Artwork: Caroline Slovensky

[amnhnyc]

It's time for Fossil Friday! Meet Cryptocleidus oxoniensis, a short-necked plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles that lived from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. The plesiosaurs had extensive modifications to the shoulder and pelvic girdles: these elements form large, flat sheets of bone, presumably for the attachment of swimming muscles. Cryptocleidus' trunk was very rigid and short, and the short tail could only function as a rudder, leaving the limbs as its main organ of propulsion.

Photos: © AMNH

Image 1: Cryptocleidus on display in the Museum.

Image 2: Photographic negative of the fossilized remains of Cryptocleidus, circa 1910.