#leptolepis

Restorations of 1. Megalurus 2. Leptolepis 3. Aspidorhynchus 4. Acrolepis 5. Pygopterus

From Traité élémentaire de paléontologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles, considérés dans leurs rapports zoologiques et géologiques Vol. 2 by François Jules Pictet, 1845

From Prehistoric Animals, written/illustrated by William E. Scheele. 1954.

1.) Cheirolepis

2.) Holostean and Subholostean fish

3.) Leptolepis

Dinovember, day 28! Not dinosaurs, but a pair of pantosaurus cruising through the Sundance Seaway, cronchin’ on fish as they go 🐟

This is it. This is my favorite page from the whole series. I love marine reptiles ❤️

For Dinovember, day 18, I have another double post, and they aren’t even dinosaurs 😅 Originally I wasn’t going to devote full pages to pterosaurs. Not on purpose, they just hadn’t come up when I did my thumbnails and layout. But then my pages didn’t match up in a printable way, and while I’m sure I probably missed a few dinosaur species, I decided on this instead. I mean, there will be marine reptiles at the end of the book, why not some flying reptiles too?

For the first one, this little Eilenodon better hope that sunning kepodactylus doesn’t notice it. Maybe the pterosaur won’t be a bother, but why take the chance? Get moving!

Second picture for today, there be fish in these waters, and close enough for these dermodactylus to easily snatch some up.

Only single page posts going forward, but I should have just enough to finish out the month!

Restorations of ganoid fish 1. Leptolepis 2. Megalurus from Traité élémentaire de paléontologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des animaux fossiles, considérés dans leurs rapports zoologiques et géologiques by François Jules Pictet, 1853-1857