SAUROPTERYGIA Pt.1/2
Part one about Plesiosaurs
Part two : https://youtu.be/s87IG7spx8g?si=Xc_YYV4FmeVpvdTe
Music by White bat audio https://www.youtube.com/@WhiteBatAudio
Thumbnail's art by Mark Witton and Ceri Thomas
Illustrations by Satoshi Kawasaki, Mario Lanzas, Gabriel Ugueto and Ceri Thomas
Icons next to names indicate the diet :
🌱 Seaweed
🦪 Shelly mollusks
🦀 Aquatic arthropods
🦐 Micro-organisms / Plankton
🐟 Fish
🥩 Meat
🦑 Cephalopods
The whole playlist : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZFljdk_R2daQUpjwiAOvjlP8M0rt5a8H&si=9SqsqUVzzOuid79w
Sources and more informations about the animals shown :
Atopodentatus - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/atopodentatus-will-blow-your-mind
Placodus - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Placodus-gigas-Agassiz-1833-skull-and-jaws-from-the-Upper-Muschelkalk-Middle-Triassic_fig3_248290137
Cyamodus - https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2019/02/cyamodus-orientalis.html
Psephoderma - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-skull-of-Psephoderma-alpinum-PIMUZ-A-III-1491-Photographs-of-the-specimen-in-dorsal_fig1_272392149
Placochelys - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-P377269.html
Henodus - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts/henodus
Pistosaurus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4968476.html
Augustasaurus - https://www.jstor.org/stable/4524251
Rhomaleosaurus - https://plesiosauria.com/directory/genera/rhomaleosaurus/
Bishanopliosaurus - http://www.paleofile.com/Sauropterygia/Bishanopliosaurus.asp
Plesiosaurus - https://plesiosauria.com/directory/genera/plesiosaurus/
Hydrorion - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4968453.html
Seeleyosaurus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4823645.html
Cryptoclidus - https://plesiosauria.com/directory/genera/cryptoclidus/
Ophthalmothule - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-cranium-of-Ophthalmothule-cryostea-PMO-224248-in-posterior-view-Abbreviations_fig3_340313965
Abyssosaurus - https://plesiosauria.com/directory/genera/abyssosaurus/
Colymbosaurus - https://www.jstor.org/stable/24523443
Muraenosaurus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-3247929.html
Thalassomedon - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-3239130.html
Styxosaurus - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts/styxosaurus
Elasmosaurus - https://plesiosauria.com/directory/genera/elasmosaurus/
Futabasaurus - https://www.mindat.org/taxon-8694509.html
Tuarangisaurus - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667116303597
Morturneria - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/TTU-P-9219-Morturneria-seymourensis-holotype-a-diagram-of-preserved-elements-of-the_fig3_335704174
Leivanectes - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667118303471
0:00 Introduction
0:35 Placodontiformes
1:45 Placodontia
6:55 Pistosauroidea
8:55 Plesiosauria
10:10 Plesiosauroidea
12:30 Microcleididae
14:30 Cryptoclididae
19:10 Elasmosauridae