Jun 23, 2024
Jurassic June 2024 Day 23: Opthalmosaurus
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Jurassic June 2024 Day 23: Opthalmosaurus
Jurassic June 2024 Day 8: Icthyosaurus communis
Keiko and her fellow mermaid Élise Bezhin swimming with Excalibosaurus, a large, long-snouted icthyosaur that lived around 195-190 million years ago in the Early Jurassic seas of what is now England.
Keiko swims with a pod of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a truly gigantic shastasaurid icthyosaur which lived about 205-202 million years ago at the end of the Triassic of what is now southern England and at 25 meters long is possibly the single largest Mesozoic marine reptile ever discovered, in her mermaid form.
Pencil drawing of a Stenopterygius family and an Ammonite
Sea Elf playing with her pet Icthyosaurus communis
Day 18: Ophthalmosaurus icenicus
Another remake of 2018’s Jurassic January was deep water as I could reused icthyosaur but with orca-like countershade coloration. Nowadays, we do understand that icthyosaurs does have both melanin type and blubber as being more warm blooded than previously thought.