Kimmerosarus the Shark Hunter and other Plesiosaur coloring pages

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Today's new drawing is of a shark hunting plesiosaur. 

Kimmerosaurus Hunting Sharks

Kimmerosarus was a Plesiosaur that lived in the Jurassic Period.  Its fossils were found in England near the Jurassic Coast where Mary Anning made her discoveries.  There is a place (on what is now land) where long tracks were made in what HAD been the ocean floor.  It has been determined that those long trenches were made by Kimmerosaurus when the marine reptile was hunting sharks that were hiding in the sand.  

Kimmerosaurus was not a huge marine reptile.  It was only 20 feet long.  Of course, 20 feet is not exactly short.  That is about 6 meters long.  It ate squid and bony fish and if the hypothesis is correct it also hunted sharks that were hiding in the sand.  (Sharks are cartilaginous fish and they have bones made of cartilage.)  There WERE other Plesiosaurs, like Elasmosaurus, that were much longer.  Elasmosaurus was 46 feet or 14 meters long.  But Elasmosaurus had a much thinner neck proportionally in comparison to Kimmerosaurus.  Kimmerosaurs had a shorter neck as well.  Elasmosaurus may have evolved from the shorter neck Plesiosaurs like Kimmerosaurus because Kimmerosaurus was from the Jurassic Period and Elasmosaurs lived in the Cretaceous Period... that came later. 

NOTE:  This drawing, in printable form, can be found by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology." Then scroll down to the Mesozoic portion of the list.  Scroll down further to the last entry on that part of the list for this new drawing.  I am also including 2 drawings of Elasmosaurus from earlier posts.  I am including it because that species was mentioned in this post. 

Elasmosaurus Mother and Calf

Plesiosaurus Surfacing