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Platypterygius australisby *Gogosardina

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Date: 2004
Medium: acrylics on card

105 million years ago, Telemon Station, Queensland

A pair of sub-adult Platypterygius australis cruise through the inland sea that covers much of central Australia during this part of the Cretaceous Period. The cosmopolitan Platypterygius was the last surviving genus of ichthyosaur, fish-like reptiles that were far more diverse during the Triassic and Jurassic Periods. Platypterygius australis is known from North Central Queensland and possibly the Northern Territory with isolated bones suggesting a maximum of length of about 7 m. However, this reconstruction is based on a superb skeleton from Telemon Station that measures 5.6 m in length.

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Submitted on: October 30, 2011
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~SamWei Mar 24, 2013

i love that

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~jackiejobs May 5, 2012

LALALA

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~jackiejobs May 4, 2012

this is SO beatiful!!!

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~alexandernevsky Nov 4, 2011 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This is amazing! The texturing on the body is excellent.

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*Gogosardina Nov 8, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Thanks - was inspired to do this immediately after working on Barremian-Hauterivian cf.Platypterygius scrap from Western Australia.

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