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[alphynix]

While the most iconic types of plesiosaur were long-necked with small heads and short blunt snouts, some of these marine reptiles actually developed the opposite sort of arrangement, with groups like the polycotylids and the pliosaurs independently evolving short necks, larger heads, and long snouts.

…Except some of them didn't keep it quite that simple.

Serpentisuchops pfisterae here lived during the late Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, in the ancient Western Interior Seaway covering what is now Wyoming, USA. This 7m long (~23') plesiosaur was a member of the polycotylid lineage, but along with a long slender snout it also had an unusually long neck.

Some earlier polycotylids like Thililua had fairly long necks, too, but all of Serpentisuchops' closest relatives were short-necked species, so it seems to have actually re-evolved this condition rather than inheriting it from its ancestors. Since no other marine reptiles in its habitat had this particular body plan, it was probably occupying a very specific ecological niche – the presence of attachment points for powerful neck muscles suggest it was able to swing its head sideways to snap its jaws at prey at high speed, with its longer neck giving it more reach than other polycotylids.

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[actual-haise]

Quick drawing of the recently described plesiosaur Franconiasaurus from the Early Jurassic of Germany

#my art #paleoart #sciart #franconiasaurus #plesiosaur #marine reptile #sauropterygia #mesozoic #jurassic #germany #extinct #animal #nature #ocean #aquatic

[makairodonx]

My 19th entry for Jurassic July 2023: Liopleurodon ferox, the giant 7-meter-long pliosaur that terrorized the Late Jurassic seas of what is now Western Europe 166-155 million years ago

#paleoart #paleontography #paleontology #liopleurodon #jurassic #jurassic seas #jurassicperiod #jurassic period #jurassic july #mesozoic #late jurassic #pliosaur #plesiosauria #sauropterygia #plesiosaur

[justgoji]

Evolution of plesiosaurs (with Hatsune Miku for scale)

#nothosaurus #nothosauridae #pistosaurus #pistosauridae #plesiosaurus #plesiosauridae #plesiosauria #sauropterygia #marine reptile #paleoart #digital drawing #digital doodle #digital doodles

[megsdoodletag]

Unktaheela Specta breaching from the Western Interior Seaway on a sunny afternoon

#unktaheela specta #paleoart #dolichorhynchia #polycotylidae #plesiosauria #sauropterygia #reptilia #chordata #animalia #eukaryota

[carvente]

No dinosaurs #dinovember2022 day 17: Nothosaurus

#dinovember #nothosaurus #sauropterygia #Illustration #paleoart #triassic #vectorart #adobeillustrator

[fundinofactoftheday]

Dinofact #13

Although they are often grouped together, prehistoric animals such as pterosaurs and plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs, instead belonging to pterosauria and sauropterygia, respectively.

Source: wikipedia [1] [2] [3]

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[ognimdo2002]

Kaiwhekea katiki – Squid Eater of Aotearoa

Kaiwhekea katiki (Maori and Japanese: カイフェケア・カティキ; lit. "squid eater") is the extinct species of plesiosaur found in New Zealand during Late Cretaceous period.

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[gaeafibjnzt]

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[shuchan-chan]

ドラえもんの映画の中では人懐こくて、かわいいイメージだったけど、この化石からは凶悪そうにしか見えないフタバスズキリュウ。 #art #artwork #animal #fossil #futabasaurus #futabasaurussuzukii #sauropterygia #墨 #墨絵 #和紙 #shuichinakano #shuichinakanoart #japanesepaper https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOfrGQLg3g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[alphynix]

Umoonasaurus demoscyllus was a small short-necked plesiosaur, about 2m long (6'6"), that lived in the polar shallow seas covering much of what is now Australia 115 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous.

Its known fossil remains include a specimen nicknamed "Eric", one of the most complete opalized vertebrate skeletons ever found.

While most of its body was fairly generalized for a plesiosaur, its skull was unusually ornamented. A raised ridge along the middle of its snout shows evidence of supporting a larger keratinous crest, and smaller ridges over each of its eyes may have also had similar structures. These crests were fairly delicate so were probably mainly used for visual display, and might have been brightly colored.

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[mariolanzas]

Example of how our perception of very different kinds of aquatic animals changed as more discoveries were made over the decades

Basilosaurus (cetacea) Paleogene / Elasmosaurus (Sauropterygia) Cretaceous / Mosasaurus (Squamata) Cretaceous

Many more examples in my videos dedicated to this topic

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Prints and more paleomerch

#paleontology #mosasaurus #paleoart #basilosaurus #elasmosaurus #retro #vintage paleoart

[kuramons]

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#words #every time i see sauropterygia pop up it's like Ahhhh finally finally #23 pages BTW Agood paper for ME.

[justgoji]

Pliosaurus funkei, going on an underwater cruise.

#pliosaurus #pliosauridae #plesiosauria #sauropterygia #marine reptile #paleoart #digital drawing #digital doodle

[kaijuthespacemaniraptorian]

The Ocean Demon; Akiarus

The Akiarus are Leviathan type monster that lives in costal regions of the old and new world, it is a large aquatic reptile that occupies a niche different from other marine apexes, they arent apex predators and they are a bit common than most other predators, they eat different prey from others such as small fish, sharks shelled molusces and also scavenges meat on land, they have also been observed to work together as a pod to take down large preys such ass juvenile ceadeus, they also have a defense mechanism in the form of water beams these monsters can absorb water through their throat and stores them in a specialized sack next to their lungs and they can spit water soo hard it boils, these monsters sometimes disturbs local costal villages to steal their supplies of fish and many villagers are terrified of them and given the name The Ocean Demon!

Classification; Leviathan Order: Pantestudines Suborder; Eosauropterygia Superorder; Sauropterygia Family: Nothosauridae

Size; 40ft long Elements: Water Ailments: Waterblight Weakest To: Fire

You can leave your thoughts down here on the replies i would love to see what you all think of this monster i made that would be appreciating ^w^!

#monster hunter #art #monster hunter ecology #fanmade #monster

[carvente]

No dinosaurs #dinovember2022 day 9: Atropodentatus.

#dinovember #sauropterygia #atropodentatus #vectorart #vector #vectorillustration #paleoart #paleoillustration #adobeillustrator