#plesiosaur

[lowpolyanimals]

Lapras from Hey You, Pikachu!

[plusie]

🐟 - prehistoric marine animals

[amnhnyc]

It’s Fossil Friday! If you’ve been inside the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins, you may have noticed this marine reptile hanging overhead. Meet Thalassomedon haringtoni, a long-necked plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous some 85 million years ago. This behemoth had a relatively small head and many sharp teeth. Its long, flexible neck probably helped in grasping rapidly moving prey. Plesiosaurs, a group related to lizards, lived in the sea. Although they weren’t dinosaurs, they became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 65 million years ago, at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs.

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Photo: © AMNH

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Surprised nobody has made this joke yet

Plesiosaur grindset

[mjhartwork]

acrylic painting of a hydrothermal vent with an abyssosaurus

[sketchy-as-fork]

River of Souls

[macaronichewtoyz]

New beast just dropped !!

[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)

[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.

[meloboye]

Aska

I can't post in prime time anymore because I found out sleeping in prime time is much better This is Aska, I drew her in May (maybe...) She will charge your marine battery, because contains and produces electricity inside her body ⚡

[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

[shattersaurus]

More chibisaurs for my friend's baby decour for their kids room

[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.

[dozydawn]

opalized plesiosaur vertebra