Recreating my first ever paleoart

Elasmosaur, me age 5

Elasmosaur, me age 10 (almost) years later

Thalassomedon.

I finally added a scanner to my computer setup, so here are some very late uploads of drawings from last year! I visited the Queensland Museum’s Sea Monsters exhibition, which starred prehistoric marine reptiles and some of their fellow sea creatures. It was an awe-inspiring exhibition, and if it ever came back I would go again in a heartbeat. Seeing that the kronosaurus head (sculpted by Paul Stumkat) was on loan from my university was a pleasant surprise! Pardon the unprofessional notes...I didn’t know the term “counter shading” at the time. Hobonichi Pentel Sign brush pen and Schmincke watercolours on Midori paper

Thalassomedon

Thalassomedon is a 12‭ ‬m (39 ft) long elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Cenomanian of the Cretaceous.

License this stock resource at: https://paleostock.com/resource/thalassomedon-stock-photo

Illustration by Mohamad Haghani

I have been recently been made aware that lmore Dinobots originally were considered, and that at least one was supposed to be an extinct marine reptile

So naturally I'm drawing four—

Bubbles is based on plesiosaurs (specifically gonna go for Thalassomedon), Fin is based on Ichthyosaurs (specifically Opthalmosaurus), Splash is a Liopleurodon, and Wave a mosasaur (specifically Tylosaurus, probably.

Mmmnm but now I'm thinking about one based on pliosaurs or maybe one of the more unique plesiosaurs.

Me at the airport surrounded by the two Thalassomedon memes I made at the airport.

95 million years ago, in a shallow sea dividing what is now North America, an Enchodus gets caught by a hungry Thalassomedon.

Sketch_Tremendous Thalassomedon.

Pencils, 2019.

Thalassomedon ‬hanningtoni‭

Art by: Vlad Konstantinov, https://www.deviantart.com/swordlord3d/art/Thalassomedon-583755218

Name: Thalassomedon ‬hanningtoni‭

Name Meaning: ‬Sea lord

First Described: 1943

Described By: Welles

Classification: Chordata, Tetrapoda, Reptilia, ‬Sauropterygia,‭ ‬Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae‭

Here we are with another Late Cretaceous elasmosaurid. Thalassomedon was on the large side for an elasmosaur, as it approximately had a total length of 35.6 feet (11 meters). The neck of this elasmosaurid was over half of its body length, but don’t forget that Albertonectes still owns the record for the longest neck length in an elasmosaur; it had 76 neck vertebrae total while Thalassomedon had only 62 neck vertebrae. Thalassomedon swam the seas of the Western Interior Seaway, and it was discovered in Colorado and in Montana. Not too surprising, gastroliths were found which may have helped Thalassomedon fully digest its meals.

Sources:

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/t/thalassomedon.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassomedon

Yes, yet another character from the project I’ve been posting about.

For the record, her head’s not supposed to be as big as her body; it’s just closer to the viewer... her neck is extremely long.

Thalassomedon (name meaning sea lord, how cool is that?) swimming around, roughly inspired by a stock photo of a drowning person. No, really.

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It’s the last Fossil Friday of 2021 and we’re closing things out with a big plesiosaur! 🦴 Suspended from the ceiling in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins is the whopping Thalassomedon haringtoni. This long-necked plesiosaur lived during the Late Cretaceous some 85 million years ago. It has a relatively small head and many sharp teeth for seizing fishes and other marine animals. The long, flexible neck probably helped in grasping rapidly moving prey. Plesiosaurs, a group related to lizards, lived in the sea. Although they weren’t dinosaurs, they became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous around 65 million years ago, at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs. Photo: E. Louis/ © AMNH (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKcWbsPH1v/?utm_medium=tumblr

So I found my old DS and my old Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure game. Decided to play the game again for some good old nostalgia, and liked it so much I wanted to draw all the playable marine reptiles (which are – fun fact – not dinosaurs).

Which one was your favourite? I liked thalassomedon, temnodontosaurus and tylosaurus personally, but I also really liked nothosaurus... It's hard for me to pick a favourite.

Also, side note: if anyone can find an OST online of the DS version of this game I'd really appreciate it (not the wii/ps2 version, those are slightly different). So far I only know of four songs I could find online: The Hub, Briefing, Title theme and Coral Zone.

Top 5 plesiosaurs!

Oooh, yay, this was a fun category! I’m only going down to genus here, because I don’t really have specific favorite species (although sometimes I have favorite specimens based on museums I have been to).

1.  Kronosaurus

2. Thalassomedon

3. Megalneusaurus

4. Attenborosaurus

5. Liepleurodon

concept: a Jurassic Park-Subnautica type game. instead of an alien world, you just have real prehistoric sea creatures to contend with. instead of reapers and stuff you have megalodons and thalassomedons, mosasaurus and weird cambrian-explosion arthropods