Plesiosaurs: the long-necked variety

[DinoToyForum]

Adam, your CollectA Plio is much more distorted than mine! It looks like a proterosuchid!

It does bother me that CollectA gives their marine reptiles big ridges of scales around the eye, as though they're just theropods who decided to take up swimming. It's hard to think of something less conducive to laminar flow than a bunch of bumps and crevices right up at the front.

Oh, it isn't my figure, the pic I linked to belongs to someone else. I figured it was warped, but even so, it isn't quite right. The best pliosaur, all these years on, is still the Invicta one.

[Archinto]

Ive got the variant of the laramie plesiosaur. I hadthe blue one as a kid and got this colored one recently in a lot. Its painted lile the brown/tan carnegie elasmosaurus. Ill postit here after a bit. You can usethe pic for reference if you want to on your site

[Sim]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

[Halichoeres]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

Some fragments of it are here (http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0588%3ATNOMHH%5D2.0.CO%3B2), but I can't seem to find the photo I was looking at when I made that post. Now I'm wondering just how well the skull is actually known and if whatever I was looking at was based on a relative. I found some references to other papers, but they're in obscure antipodean journals that my school's library doesn't subscribe to. I might be able to get them with the Scan and Deliver service, but it would take a few days.

[Sim]

I can't see any images in the link you provided, maybe because I'm not registered with them?  Anyway, it's no problem, I just thought you might have had an image of it on hand since you mentioned it.

[DinoToyForum]

Ive got the variant of the laramie plesiosaur. I hadthe blue one as a kid and got this colored one recently in a lot. Its painted lile the brown/tan carnegie elasmosaurus. Ill postit here after a bit. You can usethe pic for reference if you want to on your site

Thanks, but I have the variant too! Just haven't put it on the site yet. 

[DinoToyForum]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

Some fragments of it are here (http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0588%3ATNOMHH%5D2.0.CO%3B2), but I can't seem to find the photo I was looking at when I made that post. Now I'm wondering just how well the skull is actually known and if whatever I was looking at was based on a relative. I found some references to other papers, but they're in obscure antipodean journals that my school's library doesn't subscribe to. I might be able to get them with the Scan and Deliver service, but it would take a few days.

I'm not aware or any good Mauisaurus skulls. Perhaps you are thinging of Tuarangisaurus, also from New Zealand?

[Halichoeres]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

Some fragments of it are here (http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0588%3ATNOMHH%5D2.0.CO%3B2), but I can't seem to find the photo I was looking at when I made that post. Now I'm wondering just how well the skull is actually known and if whatever I was looking at was based on a relative. I found some references to other papers, but they're in obscure antipodean journals that my school's library doesn't subscribe to. I might be able to get them with the Scan and Deliver service, but it would take a few days.

I'm not aware or any good Mauisaurus skulls. Perhaps you are thinging of Tuarangisaurus, also from New Zealand?

Maybe? I think it was a photo of a museum mount, but that would have been filled in with information from something like Tuarangisaurus, no doubt. Thanks!

[DinoToyForum]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

Some fragments of it are here (http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0588%3ATNOMHH%5D2.0.CO%3B2), but I can't seem to find the photo I was looking at when I made that post. Now I'm wondering just how well the skull is actually known and if whatever I was looking at was based on a relative. I found some references to other papers, but they're in obscure antipodean journals that my school's library doesn't subscribe to. I might be able to get them with the Scan and Deliver service, but it would take a few days.

I'm not aware or any good Mauisaurus skulls. Perhaps you are thinging of Tuarangisaurus, also from New Zealand?

Maybe? I think it was a photo of a museum mount, but that would have been filled in with information from something like Tuarangisaurus, no doubt. Thanks!

I'm not aware of any Mauisaurus museum mounts, so let me know if you recall the details. Maybe, you were thinking of Kaiwhekea, also also from New Zealand!?

[Halichoeres]

The heads can be pretty different (check out skulls of Futabasaurus vs. Thalassomedon vs. Hydrotherosaurus vs. Mauisaurus)

I forgot to ask earlier, where can the skull of Mauisaurus be seen?  I only found one very small skeletal and it was hard to make out detail of the head.

Some fragments of it are here (http://www.bioone.org/doi/pdf/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025%5B0588%3ATNOMHH%5D2.0.CO%3B2), but I can't seem to find the photo I was looking at when I made that post. Now I'm wondering just how well the skull is actually known and if whatever I was looking at was based on a relative. I found some references to other papers, but they're in obscure antipodean journals that my school's library doesn't subscribe to. I might be able to get them with the Scan and Deliver service, but it would take a few days.

I'm not aware or any good Mauisaurus skulls. Perhaps you are thinging of Tuarangisaurus, also from New Zealand?

Maybe? I think it was a photo of a museum mount, but that would have been filled in with information from something like Tuarangisaurus, no doubt. Thanks!

I'm not aware of any Mauisaurus museum mounts, so let me know if you recall the details. Maybe, you were thinking of Kaiwhekea, also also from New Zealand!?

Ha ha wow, no idea. I clearly can't trust my own memory.

[BlueKrono]

First look at my plesiosaurs. These are just the really small ones. More to come.

[DinoToyForum]

First look at my plesiosaurs. These are just the really small ones. More to come.

Impressive collection! You have some that I now need to seek out, I'll circle them when I have a moment and ask for more info about them!

[BlueKrono]

Certainly! I have many that aren't on the Plesiosaur Directory (your site, yes?). I'd be happy to provide as much info as I know about any of them, and better, close-up pictures. I also have a lot of info on critters in my collections that I don't have yet, garnered from intensive combing of Joe DeMarco's Dinosauriana CD.

[BlueKrono]

The big 'uns. Invicta on bottom left to give a sense of scale.

[BlueKrono]

And all the mediums. Note in the lower left corner the Neoform and Chialu plesiosaurs - without a doubt the two rarest plesiosaurs out there.

[DinoToyForum]

Certainly! I have many that aren't on the Plesiosaur Directory (your site, yes?). I'd be happy to provide as much info as I know about any of them, and better, close-up pictures. I also have a lot of info on critters in my collections that I don't have yet, garnered from intensive combing of Joe DeMarco's Dinosauriana CD.

Yes. I need to update the toys page on the Plesiosaur Directory as my collection has grown since posting it, but there are several models in your collection that l'm missing. I'm staggered!

Thankd for offering to help, I'll circle the ones I'm interested in knowing more about. Maybe at the weekend.

Which plesiosaurs (inc. pliosaurs) are you looking for? Do you have a 'wants list' on the forum. We might be able to help each other out.

[BlueKrono]

Currently I've got a list 28 long of pliosaurs/mosasaurs and 55 long of plesiosaurs. I'm working my way through the alphabet of every dino company ever, and I've only gotten to the "E"s. By extrapolation, I estimate there are probably around 150 short necks and 300 long necked plesiosaurs I'm missing. Staggering, i'n'it?

[DinoToyForum]

Currently I've got a list 28 long of pliosaurs/mosasaurs and 55 long of plesiosaurs. I'm working my way through the alphabet of every dino company ever, and I've only gotten to the "E"s. By extrapolation, I estimate there are probably around 150 short necks and 300 long necked plesiosaurs I'm missing. Staggering, i'n'it?

I'm not sure if I'm staggered more by the long list of plesiosaur figures out there to be collected, or by the fact there's someone even more obsessed with them than me! I'm not alone! Good work!

[BlueKrono]

::tips hat:: Thank you sir! Do you think it likely that I have the most diverse collection of plesiosaurs on the planet? It may not be the largest collection since I find it redundant and unnecessary to acquire more than one of the same figure and rarely do so, but I'm trying to get one of every one ever made.

[DinoToyForum]

::tips hat:: Thank you sir! Do you think it likely that I have the most diverse collection of plesiosaurs on the planet? It may not be the largest collection since I find it redundant and unnecessary to acquire more than one of the same figure and rarely do so, but I'm trying to get one of every one ever made.

Probably so! Even discounting colour variants and Loch Ness Monster types (which I'm fussy about and only assimilate if they're obviously going for a realistic plesiosaurian vibe), you have an overwhelming diversity. If you have an exhaustive checklist of everything out there then we could tally up our collections and compare notes! Such a list could even form the basis for an update to the Plesiosaur Directory toy page, if you'd be interested in collaborating some time.