Richmond Pliosaur.

Mum's home, thank goodness. She came into work for a couple of hours so I could have time off. I went to Kronosaurus Korner and met Jacinta and her mum Karen who is visiting and we had lunch.
Before going back to work I went into the museum and took a couple of photos of this handsome creature.
He is the Richmond Pliosaur and was found near Richmond in 1989, he use to swim around this area about 100 million years ago as this use to be a large inland sea.

Following are a few fact about him if you are interested.

Richmond Pliosaur.
This is the best-preserved marine vertebrate skeleton in Australia. It's a short-necked plesiosaur, related to Kronosaurus and the Elasmosaurs. Its four hydrofoil-shaped paddles would have made it a fast and highly manoeuvrable swimmer. Its long, narrow snout is similar to that of a freshwater crocodile or dolphin and could cut through the water in a scissor like action to catch fish with its pointed teeth.

The Richmond Pliosaur is almost 100% complete, from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail and to the ends of 3 of its 4 paddles. It is possibly the best-preserved skeleton in the world. Plesiosaur fossils are usually incomplete as the skeleton contained large portions of cartilage which does not fossilise and because parts of the animal often drifted away or were taken away by scavengers as the carcass decomposed.

The carcass of this animal probably did not float in the water for any length of time and most likely sank to the sea floor soon after death, preserving it intact. It is displayed in the position it was found, although it originally lay on its back. The carcass probably came to rest upside-down because the stomach would have been bloated with decomposition gases.

I first blipped our museum on 12th July if you are interested in fossils. No doubt I will use the museum again as I need something to blip.