#pliosaurs — Public Fediverse posts

Here are some crops from "Consuming the Fallen," commissioned by The Etches Collection. It features over 50 fossil species from the museum and the Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay.

#FossilFriday #SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld #Pliosaurs #Pliosaurus #Sharks #Ammonites #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me

The Lyme Regis Fossil Festival programme is online: https://fossilfestival.com/

I will be talking at 13:30 on Sunday June 14 and again with Dr Dean Lomax at 15:00. See you there!

#Ichthyosaurs #Plesiosaurs #Pliosaurs #Mosasaurs #LymeRegis #LymeRegisFossilFestival #FossilFriday #Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology

Remembering my friend Richard Forrest, a marine reptile expert, with a week or two of marine reptile artworks. I'll start with this old acrylic painting, called The Wreck, which I created for Richard back in 2004.

#SciArt #SciComm #PalaeoArt #PaleoArt #Dinosaurs #Alt4Me #MarineReptiles #Fossils #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Plesiosaur #Plesiosaurus #Ichthyosaurs #Pliosaurs #JurassicWorld

It's marine reptile Monday!
Okay, that's not a thing, but here is an old acrylic painting from 1999 (26 years old!). It depicts a Liopleurodon breaching with an unfortunate Metriorhynchus in its jaws. It was commissioned for a TV series that was never made.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Pterosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Liopleurodon #Pliosaurs #WildlifeArt #Jurassic #JurassicWorld

Delve into the history and inspiration behind the 1950s Marx Kronosaurus plastic toy: https://dinotoyblog.com/kronosaurus-marx/

This is one of the most insightful and thorough reviews to date on the @dinotoyblog, and also the final Marx figure to be checked off the reviewer's to-do list.

N.B. Controversially, the skeleton may not even be Kronosaurus (see, Eiectus).

#FossilFriday #Kronosaurus #Marx #vintage #toys #paleoart #pliosaurs #plesiosaurs

Paleoartist @BobNicholls kneels at his Liopleurodon shrine. All hail pliosaurs!

He was also touching up the paintwork while he was down there.

#NottNatHist #museum #pliosaurs #Liopleurodon #WollatonHall #Nottingham #paleontology #paleoart #scienceart @GeorgeTheGorilla

I just posted a short 'Plesiosaur Bites' blog article about new (2018-2023) plesiosaur toys: https://plesiosauria.com/six-more-years-of-new-plesiosaur-toys-2018-2023/

Lots of links therein to #DinoToyBlog reviews.

#plesiosaurs #pliosaurs #toys

I've updated my plesiosaur genera stratigraphic chart again with some more recently named taxa. I can hardly keep up! Please let me know if I've missed any.

https://plesiosauria.com/wp-content/uploads/stratigraphy_v5_2024_01.jpg

#plesiosaur #stratigraphy #plesiosaurs #pliosaur #pliosaurs

Another story about the new pliosaur, this one in #NewScientist includes a good video showing footage of the excavation, interviews, and more views of the skull: https://www.newscientist.com/video/2407737-pliosaur-discovery-on-jurassic-coast-is-very-likely-a-new-species/

#pliosaurs #plesiosaurs #MarineReptiles #paleontology #fossils #TrexOfTheSea #Jurassic

Another news story about this spectacular new pliosaur discovery, this time on the BBC with some more photographs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67650247

#pliosaur #pliosaurs #plesiosaurs #plesiosaur #mMarineReptiles #fossil #paleontology #BBC

"David Attenborough film tells of risky mission to excavate ‘T rex of the seas’ from Dorset cliff": https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/dec/09/david-attenborough-film-tells-of-risky-mission-to-excavate-t-rex-of-the-seas-from-dorset-cliff

Wow. Now, that's a rather impressive pliosaur skull! Possibly the best ever found in the UK I would think.

#plesiosaur #plesiosaurs #pliosaur #pliosaurs #MarineReptiles #fossil #skull #Attenborough

#Paleontologists Identify Oldest-Known Mega-Predatory #Pliosaur https://www.sci.news/paleontology/lorrainosaurus-keileni-12378.html

The rise of #macropredatory #pliosaurids near the Early-Middle #Jurassic transition https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43015-y

"#Pliosaurs were a type of short-necked #plesiosaurs: marine #reptiles built for speed compared to their long-necked cousins... They were ecological equivalents of today’s #KillerWhales and would have eaten a range of prey including squid-like #cephalopods, large #fish and other #MarineReptiles."

New open access paper on 'The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition' establishes a new genus of pliosaur, Lorrainosaurus:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-43015-y

Congratulations @dinosven and team!

#pliosaurs #pliosaur #plesiosaurs #plesiosaur #nature #paleontology #fossils #Jurassic

@BobNicholls For anyone interested you can see Bob's fantastic Liopleurodon pliosaur head model on display at the Nottingham Natural History Museum at Wollaton Hall @GeorgeTheGorilla

#NottNatHist #WollatonHall #Liopleurodon #Nottingham #pliosaurs

Palaeontologists Richard Forrest @richardforrest (left) and Jordan Bestwick (right) inspect the fossilised remains of a pliosaur recently excavated from the Oxford Clay by the Peterborough Geological and Palaeontological Group. The disarticulated bones include many beautifully preserved teeth.

Richard, who is the chair of the group, brought it into the #NottNatHist museum for us to look at and help him identify the different bits.

#FossilFriday #pliosaurs #fossils #teeth #WollatonHall #PGPG

Kronosaurus (Jurassic World Dino Trackers, Wild Roar by Mattel): https://dinotoyblog.com/kronosaurus-jurassic-world-dino-trackers-wild-roar-by-mattel/

"Most noteworthy is the addition of barnacles across the entire figure. They are minuscule but unmistakable for what they are, being round raised bumps with a small divot in their center"

#DinoToyBlog #plesiosaurs #plesiosaur #pliosaur #pliosaurs #kronosaurus #jurassicworld #Mattel

This gigantic toothy reptile terrorized the Jurassic oceans.

Fossils show that extinct marine beasts called pliosaurs might have grown to be nearly as large as a sperm whale.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01594-w #pliosaurs #Jurassic