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Shastasauridaeby =avancna

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Various members of the Triassic family of ichthyosaurs, Shastasauridae...
Including Shastasaurus pacificus, the gargantuan Shonisaurus popularis, and the dolphin-like Californosaurus perrini
©2007-2013 =avancna
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~p-korle Apr 15, 2007  Hobbyist General Artist
ah, ichthyosaurses, finaly someone I know and recognise XD....
hehehe, I like the overall smiley faces....
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=avancna Apr 15, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Hah.
I'm thinking of redrawing my other ichthyosaurs, too.
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~ebony66136 Apr 12, 2007
Ichthyosaurs are so much fun. I had a feeling they generally had bigger eyes than that, but maybe that was a later species.
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=avancna Apr 12, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Those were later species.
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~TarryAGoat Apr 12, 2007   Photographer
Why does everyone draw [i]Shonisaurus[/i] with an itty-bitty tail fluke? Unless you think it was being propelled by its pectoral and pelvic flippers, it must have had a pretty substantial tail fluke in order to move that big of a body.
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=avancna Apr 12, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
As far I've read, the size of the tail fluke in ichthyosaurs was determined by the degree of the tail's bend, which wasn't much with Shonisaurus. And given as how the flippers were all the same size, and of a fairly large size (6 feet long), probably so.
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~TarryAGoat Apr 14, 2007   Photographer
I question the statistical validity of such inferences, since only a minuscule number of taxa have ever been preserved with the soft tissue outline. I have a feeling it may have had more of a "thresher shark" type tail, with a long top. Yeah the axial flippers were large, but that would suggest a mode of locomotion different from other ichthyosaurs (which, admittedly, are later). Cool picture, either way.
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=avancna Apr 14, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Well, when we do find the appropriate data, I'll amend the picture.
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!djberry Apr 12, 2007   Photographer
This is so fun! Your work would look so nice on the walls of a museum!
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=avancna Apr 12, 2007  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I wonder if I could blow this up to life size?
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