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The Jurassic bony fish, Leedsichthys problematicus, was about 50 to 75 feet long, making it the largest bony fish ever to exist. This, alas for L. problematicus, was a fish without bite, as it was a gargantuan filter-feeder, and was probably attacked by the swifter-moving pliosaurs, like the largest of all Jurassic pliosaurs, Liopleurodon ferox.A trio of Geosaurus crocodiles swim by.
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Especially since the head was amended due to new material.
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a question - where do you take the reconstructions from? I can't remember seeing many pics of Leedsichthys before ... horrid fish!
as for Bruntonichthys - I haven't got any pics, I think you need to talk to someone called Zerina Johanson. She's based at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and knows everything about Australian placoderms!
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I used Ray Troll's reconstruction as a reference, as the BBC's version looks so fake and fleshy.
Oh?
She have an email?
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I *think* zerina.johanson@nhm.ac.uk should work ...
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You don't suppose you could email her my version of Bruntonichthys, then?
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well ... I would do ... but Zerina and I don't exactly get on very well for various complicated reasons ...
But if you want to talk to someone about your pictures, really you should try this guy - John Long at Victoria, Australia. He's a scientist and illustrator and loves placoderms 
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Oooo!
Oooo!
I've been trying to contact him for a long time!
I've used some of the pictures in his book as reference, even.
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John's lovely. Lovely lovely lovely lovely lovely
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