#sauropterygia
Liopleurodon t-shirt
Liopleurodon was a short-necked plesiosaur that lived during the Jurassic and rose to fame because of its appearance in Walking with Dinosaurs.
And plesiosaurs weren’t dinosaurs! Dinosaurs never evolved fully aquatic forms, the closest they got to it are penguins and Spinosaurus.
Design by Greco Westermann
Plesiosaurus was discovered by Mary Anning in 1823. It was the first member of plesiosauria to be described, lending its name to the order.
Design by Greco Westermann
sulc.us/plesio
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Non-dinosaurian Triassic fauna from Dougal Dixon’s The Very First Dinosaurs. Photo illustrations by Jane Burton.
TOP: Longisquama and Sharovipteryx
MIDDLE: Nothosaurus and Tanystropheus
BOTTOM: Lycaenops and Pareiasaurus
I don’t usually think of Tanystropheus being able to hold its neck at an elevated angle like this.
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