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Seeking to emulate a very old piece of palaeoart (markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20… ) after reading Mark Witton's post about Sclerocormus and Cartorhynchus, I drew this.

Sclerocormus emulates the antique depictions of ichthyosaurs here; as a primitive relative it was able to crawl on land similar in fashion to seals or sea lions. Accompanying it, rather than snake-necked plesiosaurs or thalattosuchians, as neither had evolved yet, are the pachypleurosaurs Majiashanosaurus. The washed up debris on the beach is a small piece of driftwood, with crinoids attached. More successful attempts led to huge logs covered with crinoids reaching up to 36ft/11m long, filter feeding as they drifted endlessly in the ocean; the whales of their day. This is also a good example of perspective; while the ichthyosaur depicted in the original piece was probably quite large, Sclerocormus was just less than 6ft/1.8m long. This is a very small spit of beach they are on, but they're making it work.

I messed up the head shape too much on Sclerocormus, and had to white it out, hence why the lighting is a tad weird there.

Description
Seeking to emulate a very old piece of palaeoart (markwitton-com.blogspot.com/20… ) after reading Mark Witton's post about Sclerocormus and Cartorhynchus, I drew this.

Sclerocormus emulates the antique depictions of ichthyosaurs here; as a primitive relative it was able to crawl on land similar in fashion to seals or sea lions. Accompanying it, rather than snake-necked plesiosaurs or thalattosuchians, as neither had evolved yet, are the pachypleurosaurs Majiashanosaurus. The washed up debris on the beach is a small piece of driftwood, with crinoids attached. More successful attempts led to huge logs covered with crinoids reaching up to 36ft/11m long, filter feeding as they drifted endlessly in the ocean; the whales of their day. This is also a good example of perspective; while the ichthyosaur depicted in the original piece was probably quite large, Sclerocormus was just less than 6ft/1.8m long. This is a very small spit of beach they are on, but they're making it work.

I messed up the head shape too much on Sclerocormus, and had to white it out, hence why the lighting is a tad weird there.