#ichthyosauromorph

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#Paleostream 8/02/2025

here's today's #Paleostream sketches!!! today we drew Fukuisaurus, Cartorhynchus, Nanuqsaurus, and Stethacanthus

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Cartorhynchus doing Cartorhynchus activities

I just can’t stop drawing ichthyosaurs

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Baisesaurus vibing in the waves

So baisesaurus is a genus of ichthyosauromorph, related to ichthyosaurs and hupehsuchians and whatnot. The specimen itself is a few vertebrae, ribs and gastralia (iirc), so you can’t really tell the proportions. So what I did to reconstruct him is that I took hupehsuchians and basal ichthyosaur proportions and sorta mushed them together in a way that isn’t too far fetched and that I like

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Kid maned birth

What

Kid

Kid named

Huh?

Kid mamed

Uhhh

Eretmorhipis

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Whip-tailed marine reptile hints at post-extinction diversity

Roughly 252 million years ago, occurred the most severe mass extinction known to ever happen on Earth. The event, likely caused by multiple meteor impacts, volcanic eruptions, and the subsequent climate change, devastated more than half of species living at that time.

An ancient relative of the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs shows unusual anatomical features hinting at unexpected marine diversity shortly after the Permian extinction event.

Image credit: Joschua Knüppe