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Generations of Ichthyosaurs
Heinrich HarderGrowing up Ichthyosaurus was a catch all, in the same way that mosasaur and plesiosaur have been used in the past, for any fish-like reptile between the size of dolphins and orcas. The...
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Links and Only Links
Typically I try to find all kinds of books and other videos for family days on Sundays. Today, however, I am just going to put up 2 links to read with those crazy kids in your life: Kids Dig Dinos and...
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It is always quite fun to see an amateur model of locomotion of extinct species. This Ichthyosaur is, in my opinion, pretty accurate for single direction movement along a line of travel. There is a...
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Plenty of Papers
Ichthyosaurus, as briefly stated before, was certainly a globally distributed and highly successful marine reptile. Evidence has been found in England, of course we remember Mary Anning, but its...
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A Short Marine History
I do love Heinrich Harder's workThe evolutionary history of Ichthyosaurus is not entirely known, but enough details have been discovered to compile a good amount of evidence of the lineage of...
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Books For All
Ichthyosaurus, we know, is a popular animal. It is, unfortunately, always lumped in with dinosaurs, but it does get recognition to the point that any marine reptile that looks vaguely like a fish...
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Dolly Stops By
Photo by Ryan SommaDolichorhynchops osborni is the type species of a short necked plesiosaur genus. Described in 1902 by Williston, Dolichorhynchops has had a slightly checkered past and, in the past 8...
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Crushed Skulls and Wonderful Preservation
Borrowed from Oceans of KansasThe skeleton beside us here is housed in the Sternberg Museum. This picture is a bit old considering that the skeleton is now glass rectangle in the middle of the exhibit...
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Dolly Teaches Kids
Dolichorhynchops has a page dedicated to it on Kids Dig Dinos for today. There is also a good, but small, National Geographic page dedicated to Dolichorhynchops as well. Probably one of the best pages...
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I made note that Dolichorhynchops appears in a National Geographic special. The model and a bit of motion are portrayed above suing the model with a tiny bit of information tossed in as well. I have...
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Too Many Papers
Lately, because Dolichorhynchops intersects my thesis research in that there is the potential that my unidentified vertebrae could potentially belong to a "Dolly" or another short neck plesiosaur...
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So Much To Do
I said before that a lot of my work at present is a lot of reading and background researching. Dolichorhynchops figures into this a lot right now. Some days, like today, I have to put away the work...
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Well Known Polycotylids
We have shared information about books, movies, and even stuffed animals this week. For not being a household name Dolichorhynchops is a fairly popular prehistoric marine reptile; maybe it is the name...
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The Smallest Mosasaur
At between 7 and 12 feet (2 and 4 meters), Clidastes is the smallest of the mosasaurs; the longest specimen discovered is approximately 20 feet (6.2 meters) long. Like last week's smaller plesiosaur...
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Tail Oars
The late great Dan Varner (©), a king of marine animal illustrationClidastes, as the smallest mosasaur, is unique in that way at least. Its small size allowed it to be a quick and agile swimmer that...
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Clidastes has no "for kids" links, sadly. It has very little in the way of child oriented goodness associated with it actually. Considering it is Easter still here in the US there probably is not too...
View ArticleSmallest Mosasaur Video Collection
Surprise! There are no videos. No April Fools' joke here, there just are not any Clidastes related videos. Not even a tribute video dedicated entirely to Clidastes. There is a video dedicated to "sea...
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Clidastes In Europe?
Plate from Lindgren and Siverson (caption on pg 4 (222))We think of marine species, for the most part, as being pretty much globally distributed. This is because most of us are not marine biologists...
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Locked Vertebrae
Found on a Wikimedia Commons PageAside from being the smallest mosasaur, Clidastes has an interesting name. I do not believe I mentioned before that the word mosasaur itself means "Meuse River Lizard,"...
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Saying Farewell to Mosasaurs
©Nobu TamuraClidastes, so long! Clidastes deserves a lot more than that though. The last of the marine reptiles in this two month odyssey and a fantastic, spectacular animal and one of the best...
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