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Liopleurodon Fossil & 3D Skeleton
Liopleurodon ferox
- Age
- Jurassic, about 165.3–154.8 million years ago
- Found in
- UK, France
- Length
- 5.8 m
- Height
- 1.0 m
- Group
- Plesiosaur (a short-necked pliosaur relative; not a dinosaur)
How this 3D skeleton was made
This 3D model is a reconstruction. Most bone shapes (413 of 438) are estimated from close relatives and published reconstructions. The bone shapes are not the actual shapes of this species' fossils. 25 bones were shaped from photos or figures of this species' own fossils.
From this species 25Borrowed from relatives 0Estimated 413
Bones known from fossils
20 of 438 bones are known from fossils. 418 have no record.
Known 20Filled in 0No record 418
Tap a bone on the 3D page to see where each bone shape came from.
Sources
- 3D skeleton: A reconstruction created on this site using freely usable resources (scientific papers, public domain books, and Wikimedia photos) (2026-10-05). Of the 438 bones (excluding teeth), 25 were modeled directly from photos, drawings, and dimensions of actual fossils of this species; 0 were borrowed from closely related species and scaled; and 413 were estimated. Sources used: Andrews 1913 A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part II, pp. 1-23, pls I-II (archive.org/details/descriptivecatal02brit) (Public domain (published 1913, author died 1924, marked NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT on archive.org)) / Zhao 2026 PeerJ doi:10.7717/peerj.21146 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) / Wikimedia Commons (authors listed in figures.json) (CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 4.0 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC0 / Public domain). For papers that are not freely usable, only factual data such as reported dimensions were referenced.
- Known bones: 20 bones are documented in references as fossil finds or visible in photos (others have not been found, or cannot be confirmed from references).
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