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About the author
Email: plesiosauria@gmail.com
Follow: @adamstuartsmith

Higher taxa

  • Sauropterygia
  • Eosauropterygia
  • Eusauropterygia
  • Pachypleurosauria
  • Nothosauria
  • Pistosauroidea
  • Pistosauria
  • Plesiosauria
  • Pliosauroidea
  • Plesiosauroidea

Families

  • Aristonectidae
  • Brachauchenidae
  • Cimoliasauridae
  • Cryptoclididae
  • Elasmosauridae
  • Leptocleididae
  • Microcleididae
  • Plesiosauridae
  • Pliosauridae
  • Polycotylidae
  • Rhomaleosauridae

Genera

The genera section is under construction, active pages are indicated by an asterisk

  • A
  • Albertonectes
  • Alexeyisaurus
  • Alzadosaurus
  • Anningasaura
  • Aphrosaurus
  • * 'Apractocleidus'
  • * Archaeonectrus
  • * Aristonectes
  • * Attenborosaurus
  • Augustasaurus
  • Avalonnectes
  • B
  • Bathyspondylus
  • Bishanopliosaurus
  • * Bobosaurus
  • Borealonectes
  • Brachauchenius
  • * Brancasaurus
  • C
  • Callawayasaurus
  • 'Cimoliasaurus'
  • Colymbosaurus
  • * Cryptoclidus
  • D
  • Dolichorhynchops
  • E
  • * Edgarosaurus
  • * Elasmosaurus
  • Eoplesiosaurus
  • Eopolycotylus
  • * Eretmosaurus
  • Eromangasaurus
  • Eurycleidus
  • F
  • Fresnosaurus
  • Futabasaurus
  • G
  • Gallardosaurus
  • Georgiasaurus
  • H
  • Hauffiosaurus
  • Hydralmosaurus
  • Hydrorion
  • Hydrotherosaurus
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • * Kaiwhekea
  • * Kimmerosaurus
  • * Kronosaurus
  • L
  • * Leptocleidus
  • Leurospondylus
  • * Libonectes
  • * Liopleurodon
  • Lusonectes
  • M
  • * Macroplata
  • Manemergus
  • * Maresaurus
  • Marmornectes
  • Mauisaurus
  • Megalneusaurus
  • * Meyerasaurus
  • Microcleidus
  • Morenosaurus
  • * 'Morturneria'
  • Muraenosaurus
  • N
  • Nichollssaura
  • O
  • * Occitanosaurus
  • 'Ogmodirus'
  • Opallionectes
  • P
  • * Pachycostasaurus
  • Pahasapasaurus
  • Palmulasaurus
  • Pantosaurus
  • * Peloneustes
  • Pistosaurus
  • Plesiopleurodon
  • Plesiopterys
  • * Plesiosaurus
  • Pliosaurus
  • Polycotylus
  • Polyptychodon
  • Q
  • R
  • * Rhomaleosaurus
  • S
  • Seeleyosaurus
  • Scanisaurus
  • * Simolestes
  • Sthenarosaurus
  • Stratesaurus
  • 'Stretosaurus'
  • Strongylokrotaphus
  • Styxosaurus
  • Sulcusuchus
  • T
  • Tatenectes
  • Terminonatator
  • * Thalassiodracon
  • * Thalassomedon
  • 'Thaumatosaurus'
  • *Thililua
  • Trememesacleis'
  • *Tricleidus
  • Trinacromerum
  • Tuarangisaurus
  • U
  • Umoonasaurus
  • V
  • Vinialesaurus
  • W
  • Wapuskanectes
  • Westphaliasaurus
  • Woolungasaurus
  • X
  • Y
  • Yuzhoupliosaurus
  • Z
  • Zarafasaura

Commissions

List of previous beneficiaries:

Date Beneficiary Description Content Artwork (click for large version)
March 2011 Cengage Learning Use of illustration in the book "Essentials of Oceanography, V6" Elasmosaurus illustration
March 2010 Warwickshire County Council (Warwick Museum) Illustration commissioned for exhibition Plesiosaurus illustration
2009 Imran Rahman/ for article in 'Palaeontology' Illustration commissioned for article Mitate illustration unavailable

April 2009

Fraunhofer IAIS Incorporated into exhibition Elasmosaurus illustration

March 2009

Washtenaw Community College Incorporated into exhibition Plesiosaurus, Elasmosaurus, and Ichthyosaurus illustrations

April 2008

Bearport Publishing Company, Inc. Double-page spread for the book "Armored and Dangerous" Scelidosaurus (painting)

Feb. 2008

FMA Heritage Resources Consultants Inc. Incorporated into an educational brochure Three marine reptiles Liopleurodon, Elasmosaurus, and Ichthyosaurus, separate pencil illustrations

July 2007

National Geographic Kids, UK Illustration for magazine article Elasmosaurus (pencil illustration)

2007 Rockwatch magazine Illustration for article Brachiosaurus pencil illustration

Aug. 2006

Witz End Design

 

Incorporated into an educational article on 'fossils'- part of a boxed set of 28 different articles on science and social studies. For use in school libraries and classrooms. Plesiosaurus pencil illustration

Mar. 2006

Bath Royal Literary and Philosophical Society Illustration incorporated into a gallery exhibit Illustration of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur.

Feb. 2006

Wikipedia Illustaration used in the Wikibook -Wikijunior Dinosaurs Plesiosaurus, pencil illustration
2005 Canadian
Natural Resources
Limited
,
Alberta, Canada
Incorporated into an educational brochure and presentation Three marine reptiles Liopleurodon, Elasmosaurus, and Ichthyosaurus, separate pencil illustrations

2005 National Museum of Ireland (Natural History). 'Cabinets of Curiosity' project. Incorporated into displays, including a giant hanging illustration, and booklets Elasmosaurus platyurus, pencil illustration
2005 Judith River Dinosaur Institute, Montana Incorporated into dinosaur-dig 2006 logo and Beer Label Camarasaurus, pencil illustration and adobe illustrator design
2005 Warwick Museum Incorporated into museum exhibit Palaeoloxodon (painting)  
2005 Warwick Museum large wall mural, stand-alone museum exhibit (pictured) Rhomaleosaurus pencil illustration, colourized with Photoshop, blown up digitally  
2005 Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group Background artwork for outdoor Information board, Bubbenhall, UK Quaternary scene with prehistoric man (A1 size painting)
2004 Warwick Museum Incorporated into museum exhibit (pictured) Ichthyosaurus communis, pencil illustration, colorized with photoshop
2004 Bristol museum and Art Gallery Incorporated into exhibition Scelidosaurus harrisoni and Camarasaurus supremus (pencil illustrations)

2004 University of Bristol Incorporated into 'Bristol Dinosaur Project' poster Camarasaurus supremus, pencil illustartion
2003-2004   Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG)   Background artwork for a series of 5 outdoor information boards, now on display at Brueton Park, Solihul, UK. Set of 5 paintings (poster paint, large A1 size), Precambrian/ Cambrian scene, Carboniferous scene, Permian scene, Jurassic scene, Quaternary scene)

2003 Rockwatch magazine Illustration for magazine article Elasmosaurus platyurus, pencil illustration    
2003 Rockwatch magazine Illustration for magazine article Spinosaurus, pencil illustration
2002 University of Warwick Campus geological walk leaflet Dacyceps (a prehistoric amphibian) pencil illustration  

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The skeletons in the site header are (from left to right): Kronosaurus (in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge), Thalassomedon (in the American Museum of Natural History, New York), Cryptoclidus (In the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow), Rhomaleosaurus (in the Natural History Museum, London), Dolichorhynchops (in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington) and Thalassiodracon (in the Natural History Museum, London).

©2011 Copyright Adam S. Smith. This site opened in June 2001. Last updated April 2013.