Triassic Sea coloring page

 Welcome to my free coloring pages blog.

I am breaking with my tradition and posting this second drawing on the same day

but on a different post.  This is kinda rare for me.

The new drawing that I drew for this post is of 

a Triassic Sea.

Triassic Sea

The above animals are from the Triassic Sea.  There are corals, sea lilies, fish, (including a bonehead fish), a smaller Ichthyosuar, and a Tanystropheus - which was an early Plesiosaur or more appropriately a Proto-Plesiosaur.  There are also cephalopods, such as an ammonite and an orthocone.  The Ammonite is using its defense mechanism on the Ichthyosaur.  The Ammonite is inking the Ichthyosaur.  This may help the Ammonite escape.  There were some ichthyosaur with shell-crushing teeth.

I must confess that the leaf-like animals are Rangeomorphs and they were actually extinct a couple of hundred years before the Triassic Period.  But they are sure fun to draw.

Tanystropheus was possibly up to 20 feet or 6 meters in length.  It had a ridiculously long neck, probably to help it snag fish.  Ichthyosaurs in the Triassic were of varying sizes.  This one is rather small in comparison to some that got to be 70 feet or 21 meters long.

NOTE:  This drawing is found in printable form by clicking on the Paleontology button and then scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic Life section.  If you are accessing this on or around Oct. 2024 then you will see the title of this drawing near or at the bottom of the Mesozoic section of the Paleontology list.