#cladoselache

[ppaleoartistgallery]

Gorgonichthys

i felt like drawing a placoderm last month, so i drew Gorgonichthys. it's been sitting in my wips pile for ages now, not tooo happy with this but that's the nature of art i guess :]

[alex-fictus]

C is for...?

All of the C names in my Paleo Party! Any I'm missing? (Cambrypachycope is in the works, I will bring this little hellion into sticker form)

Stickers || Phone Wallpapers Masterlist

[bonesthedestroyeroflegos]

Artober Day 27. A fin from Cladoselache.

[delborovic]

Trick or Treat!  Happy #WoLloween2022 a ffxiv Halloween exchange on twitter- here's my piece for aceinheart 

[aquatark]

Cladoselache - Veiled Sea

Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo Switch

did you know there's a big spreadsheet of dive IDs for every uniquely sized creature in this game? it's a godsend if you're trying to get all acheivements... but the only one missing is a dive ID containing a large cladoselache!

if you happen to come across a map with one (a normal map, not an event dive, as those dive IDs can't be saved in the spreadsheet), shoot me the ID and i'll pass it along to the right folks! :>

[antiqueanimals]

Ichthyosaur and Cladoselache. Animal Ghosts. Edited by Claudia Clow. Illustrated by Walt Disney Productions. 1971.

Internet Archive

[252mya]

Prehistoric Sharks sweatshirt

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years. Their evolution has produced some of the absolute weirdest animals ever!

sulc.us/jaws

Art by @soft-biology

[neovenatorgirlteeth]

DINOVEMBER DAY 3: 357MYA, FRESNIAN STAGE; CALIFORNIA, USA

(This is Thursday’s: sorry for the wait, I was busy)

It is the late Devonian period, and a giant, 10 metre long Dunkleosteus patrols the drop off zone in search of his next meal, followed by a pair of opportunistic Cladoselache. He is the apex predator of the Devonian seas, bigger and more powerful than any predator before him. His face is covered in thick bony plating, and instead of teeth, he had a plate of sharpened bone extending from his upper jaw, able to slice through the thickest carapace and the toughest skin. The only thing he fears is another Dunkleosteus.

In the 45 million years that have passed since we met Pterygotus in the Silurian, the fish have only become more dominant, and the arthropods more rare. The sea scorpions are hanging on by a thread, and the trilobites are waning in diversity, relegating the arthropods to the world of the little creatures. Dunkleosteus is symbolic of the fishes’ success, and he is part of a group of armoured fishes called the placoderms. Not all are as big as Dunkleosteus, but some, like the filter-feeding Titanichthys, are. They are not the only group of fish in the Devonian, as fish have been diversifying; there are the Chondrichthyes, like Cladoselache, who have flexible cartilaginous skeletons, and the Osteichthyes, who not only have skulls of bone but entire skeletons made of it. They, in turn, are split into 2 main lineages: lobe-finned and ray-finned. Most modern fish are ray-finned.

At the end of this stage, however, a long, slow, drawn out mass extinction event will begin, as global cooling begins to starve the oceans of oxygen. Placoderm fish like Dunkleosteus will not survive, but it will also finish off the sea scorpions and impact the trilobites irreversibly. However, sharks and their close cousins, like Cladoselache, will thrive and remain virtually unchanged up until the present, taking up the mantle of top oceanic predator. The fish are here to stay; and in the tropics of Northwest Canada, one fish is making the first move onto land…