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Liopleurodon L. ferox L. macromerus right?

It 'was the series "Walking with Dinosaurs" television program, first of all to the BBC which led to this huge Liopleurodon pliosaur from Middle Jurassic to the general public's attention. In the third episode of the TV series in six episodes, "The Cruel Sea" makes his dramatic entrance Liopleurodon pulling a dinosaur, carefree eating meat from the coast (Eustreptospondylus). In this innovative documentary series, was Liopleurodonrepresented as a Killer of 25 meters and weighing 150 tons. Announced the largest carnivore that ever lived, gave this prehistoric leviathan a fan base in the immediate children interested in dinosaurs, boys in particular. Allegations of immense size Liopleurodon played in most paleontologists, it is not difficult to understand why, given the limited fossil material known.

The ways in which most of the fossil material Liopleurodon, including the holotype materialhas been attributed to L. ferox. The holotype is the fossil, which is based on the original scientific description. Liopleurodon with the holotype is a single tooth. In fact, it's smooth appearance of this tooth, the lack of teeth (teeth) that gives Liopleurodon his name. Liopleurodon The name means "tooth smooth." A number of species have been described Liopleurodon. ferox L. from Europe may have reached lengths of about 10 meters.macromerus Liopleurodon, fossils of which was connected to the Neuquén Basin of Argentina may be larger, perhaps more than 15 feet in length.

The Wild Safari Dinos Replica Liopleurodon

The new model Liopleurodon Safari from the United States is comparable to a previous model of Procon / Collecta released, but there are subtle differences and Safari designers deserve credit for the introduction of such a very detailed model of a pliosaur in theirModel of the range.

Measure of a fraction under 18 inches long, fits this Liopleurodon safari well in the hands of a small child and is without doubt the most active, creative play in a row. Neither Safari or model of the Liopleurodon Procon / Collecta scale. It carefully avoids the problem of the actual size of the Jurassic Beastie. The Liopleurodon Safari has a large, powerful search fins, a deep body and a thick, strong neck. It 'clear that the designershas examined the fossils carefully before preparing their response.

The head is in proportion to the rest of the body (some specimens fossilized skull Liopleurodon material evidence of a skull of almost 3 meters in length), and the jaws are strong. It 's a bit difficult, the external nostril (nostril), but the shape of the top of the skull gives the impression that site. In our model, the eye is red painted what our unique Liopleurodon is incredibly stiff, this barrierbe a winner with the fans baby dinosaur, but we can not remember all the vertebrate species with a marine dress, red eyes.

The painting is on a high standard, the designers opted for marking / Procon Collecta model that is similar to another closely mimic the camouflage and seen the "Walking with Dinosaurs" Liopleurodon. The model has a clear belly, which then gives way to darker shades of blue on the sides and top of head, back and upperThe short tail are painted a deep blue. When asked for our impressions, put Everything Dinosaur team members inspired by the colors and markings of sharks and dolphins, a student may be present. Liopleurodon would very likely have been an ambush predator, perhaps in the throes of charge from the bottom with a powerful burst of speed, in a similar way as whites. The belly clear, if seen from below against the sunlit waters have Liopleurodonvery difficult to see - a big help for an ambush hunter. Markings seen on the sides would help to break the animals as indicated just below the surface in bright sunlit water, once a major asset to a top predator swam. That's the idea behind the color and pattern on replicas before Liopleurodon, and does not continue.

There is a subtle difference between the model / Procon Collection and the new Safari Liopleurodon Ironically,covers the teeth. Liopleurodon had very large teeth in its jaws long, the largest were more than twice as much as the teeth in jaws of Tyrannosaurus rex. Much of the material is incomplete skull and complete copies are on the ground hurt, so that the position of biggest teeth in the jaws open to speculation. Procon Collecta version, the largest teeth of a rosette at the top of the jaws, which are placed in front of the upper and lower jaw and the model is shownshut your mouth. The model of Safari is the creature made with open mouth and teeth larger, are not associated with intermediate or predentary jaw (the front of the jaw) are in the front of the upper jaw at positions above and below the Dental (jaw bone ). The Safari model has teeth, who looks like a modern crocodile. In crocodiles, the fourth largest tooth of the lower jaw fits into a groove in the upper jaw and is visible even when theThe mouth is closed. In addition, the teeth of the upper and lower jaw, more or less aligned so that when a crocodile closes its mouth, teeth tightly bound together with the transition between the lower teeth of the upper jaw teeth. The Safari model, the teeth are not as square or as a spread over previous versions of this great pliosaur.

Part of the attraction of this model is the ability to make comparisons between it and the other Liopleurodon make replies. Safari has an additionalexciting and interesting new model to its field Dinos Wild Safari.