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William Simpson with PR 1186, an old plaster cast of Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, another kind of marine reptile, very different from ichthyosaurs. Many plesiosaurs had long necks, and relatively small heads with many sharp teeth for eating fish. This is the mythical occupant of the Loch Ness. But this is a cast of a real plesiosaur that really existed in England ~10 million years before the ichthyosaur from Germany above. This specimen is also housed in the Fossil Herp Range. (Rich Hein/Sun-Times)
Due to the fact that these models were created very early on, the looks of the models are mostly inaccurate compared to the modern day views on the creatures
The Plesiosaurus (the long necked one) is considered one of the more accurate models, whereas, the Ichthyosaurus (the one that looks like its a head of a crocodile) is not the most accurate model in the park but its not the most inaccurate one either!
Ogopogo on the Okanagan lakeshore, foot of Bernard Street, at the entrance to Kelowna City Park. Adjacent to the statue of the sails. The Ogopogo is a legendary creature named so by the indigenous Okanogan native peoples of the area. There have been many sightings over the last few hundred years, with the bulk of sightings over the last hundred years since the advent of photography. Generally, if you were to see the Ogopogo, only it's head and the undulating body is usually all you would see. (Just like this sculpture.) Other times, you would just see a strange set of ripples traveling in a given direction, like the wake of a boat, (but with no apparent object or creature visible above water to make the disturbance). Some scientists believe that it could be a land locked plesiosaurus, or similar creature, cut off from the Pacific ocean. There's even a large underwater cave (near Peachland) where the creature is believed to have made it's home. Some even believe there is an infant born to the creature, and is occasionally seen with the mother creature. I myself have seen what I believe to be the creature back in 1969 while on vacation in Kelowna.
As you walk into the Pannett Park Museum, the first fascinating exhibit on the left is an array of fossils, many of which have been found locally - here is just a snapshot of such stunners as Plesiosaurus Propinquus and Ichthyosaurus Platyodon!
Plesiosaur bones including partial skeleton of Plesiosaurus. from the Lower Jurassic (Lias) of Lyme Regis.
Mosasaurus (light blue)
- Author: Fumiaki Kawahata
- Folder: Tran Trung Hieu
Plesiosaurus
author and Folder: Tran Trung Hieu
Plesiosaurus (Greek: πλησιος/plesios, near to + σαυρος/sauros, lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the early part of the Jurassic Period, and is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England. Although there are a number of modern-day myths surrounding this order of creature, such as the myth of the Loch Ness Monster, these creatures are known to be extinct.