Ichthyosauria

'Ichthyosauria – long fish shaped reptiles with a long thin snout lined with sharp teeth, the ichthyosaur is characterised by very large eyes. This Mesozoic reptile evolved into a highly specialised predator with a rapid swimming style and keen eyes.'

This is a place to hold some of my musings - mostly about palaeontology. I’m not one of the many knowledgeable geologists/palaeontologists who post blogs so I expect to drawl on about things that have amused me.

Sunday, 17 July 2011

Background image

I've been changing the background colour of this bolg frequently usually because new photos have clashed with the original colour. So I decided to create a background image with a ichthyosaur which is more related to the blog title. Here is the design I sketched last night. I cant get the blog description to move out of the way of the paddle so for the moment its difficult to read but no one reads this blog anyway!


The sketch is from an illustration of ichthyosauras communis in Dictionnaire Universel D'Histoire Naturelle published by Alcide d’Orbigny in 1849. It can be seen on google books here. There are some other good images and information in Ian West's Dorset website; http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/liasfos.htm
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