Ichtyotitan the Biggest Ichthyosaur and the Biggest Marine Reptile coloring page

  This is one of the Reptile drawings I posted previously.

I am now posting each drawing individually. 

This is my free coloring pages blog... with around 3000 coloring pages that I have drawn.

I am a retired science teacher and a confirmed Paleontology and Biology fanatic...

 so I will tell you about the animals in each drawing.

I should add that I am a Geology enthusiast as well.

Ichthyotitan the Biggest Marine Reptile

The first found fossils of Ichthyotitan were found a few years ago by an 11-year-old girl.  
The fossils were found near the same place as Mary Anning found the first known Ichthyosaur.  The 11-year-old girl is named Ruby Reynolds.  The fossils of Ichthyotitan were enormous.  They turned out to be a few of the bones of quite possibly the biggest marine reptile ever.  Icthyotitan was an Ichthyosaur.  It was shaped vaguely like a dolphin... only a HUGE dolphin!  It is estimated to have been 82 feet long!  That is 25 meters long!  There IS some evidence of a larger Ichthyosaur but there is speculation that it may be another sample of Ichthyotitan.  

Other similar gigantic Ichthyosaurs were found deep in the Southern Nevada desert and that spot is now a state park.  It is called Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park.  My wife and I have been there.  It is amazing to see the fossilized bones of such huge marine animals!

The two Pterosaurs that are seen in the sky are Rhamphorhynchus and Caelestiventus. They are both Pterosaurs from the late Triassic Period, so they did live at the same time as Ichthyotitan.  To get to the printable version of this drawing just click on the Paleontology button and scroll down to the bottom of the Mesozoic section of the list.  Click on the title and print.  Have fun coloring!