Shonisaurus should be upsized

[NanoLancensis]

Ever since the DLC came out I've been somewhat disappointed by how the Shonisaurus has been handled; though it has a beautiful design, in-game it's only 15 meters long, a little longer than the Tylosaurus but several meters shorter than the grossly oversized Mosasaurus. Though this is fine is a vacuum given that this is a perfectly reasonable estimate for the animal, specifically Shonisaurus popularis, personally I was hoping for its size to reflect the much larger Shonisaurus sikanniensis (or Shastasaurus sikanniensis if you're so inclined) - 21 meters, the same as the Mosasaurus - for the sake of variety and simple coolness factor.

I was willing to just ignore this and pass it off as it being S. popularis, but looking into what dig site its fossils in the game are extracted from, I discovered something - its in-game dig site is the Pardonet Formation in British Columbia. Shonisaurus popularis remains have not been found here, it's only known from Nevada - however, S. sikanniensis is known from there. Connecting the dots, the Shonisaurus in the Prehistoric Marine Species Pack is Shonisaurus (or Shastasaurus) sikanniensis, and as such, it is way, way too small.

I think it would be wonderful if the Shonisaurus could be upscaled from 15 meters to 21 meters, or even more if exaggeration would be welcome (perhaps 25+ meters is overkill?). Even ignoring the whole S. sikanniensis deal, making it larger would certainly make for more dramatic imagery. I'm not sure exactly how complicated scaling it up would be in execution, and it would probably necessitate changing its stats and how other animals perceive it, but at least in my opinion, I think it would be worth it.

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[JurassicMan1984]

Ever since the DLC came out I've been somewhat disappointed by how the Shonisaurus has been handled; though it has a beautiful design, in-game it's only 15 meters long, a little longer than the Tylosaurus but several meters shorter than the grossly oversized Mosasaurus. Though this is fine is a vacuum given that this is a perfectly reasonable estimate for the animal, specifically Shonisaurus popularis, personally I was hoping for its size to reflect the much larger Shonisaurus sikanniensis (or Shastasaurus sikanniensis if you're so inclined) - 21 meters, the same as the Mosasaurus - for the sake of variety and simple coolness factor.

I was willing to just ignore this and pass it off as it being S. popularis, but looking into what dig site its fossils in the game are extracted from, I discovered something - its in-game dig site is the Pardonet Formation in British Columbia. Shonisaurus popularis remains have not been found here, it's only known from Nevada - however, S. sikanniensis is known from there. Connecting the dots, the Shonisaurus in the Prehistoric Marine Species Pack is Shonisaurus (or Shastasaurus) sikanniensis, and as such, it is way, way too small.

I think it would be wonderful if the Shonisaurus could be upscaled from 15 meters to 21 meters, or even more if exaggeration would be welcome (perhaps 25+ meters is overkill?). Even ignoring the whole S. sikanniensis deal, making it larger would certainly make for more dramatic imagery. I'm not sure exactly how complicated scaling it up would be in execution, and it would probably necessitate changing its stats and how other animals perceive it, but at least in my opinion, I think it would be worth it.

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Than better hope for Shastasaurus. It was indeed larger than Shonisaurus and reached up to 21 m in lenght.

 

[NanoLancensis]

Than better hope for Shastasaurus. It was indeed larger than Shonisaurus and reached up to 21 m in lenght.

The dig site they come from in-game points to the game's Shonisaurus being Shastasaurus (sikanniensis) already - what genus S. sikanniensis belongs to is fraught, but Frontier seem to have gone with it being a Shonisaurus species (while also making it S. popularis-sized and nullifying the entire point of going with S. sikanniensis in the first place...); I maintain that it should be scaled up to reflect this.

 

[The Carcharodontogenius]

Ever since the DLC came out I've been somewhat disappointed by how the Shonisaurus has been handled; though it has a beautiful design, in-game it's only 15 meters long, a little longer than the Tylosaurus but several meters shorter than the grossly oversized Mosasaurus. Though this is fine is a vacuum given that this is a perfectly reasonable estimate for the animal, specifically Shonisaurus popularis, personally I was hoping for its size to reflect the much larger Shonisaurus sikanniensis (or Shastasaurus sikanniensis if you're so inclined) - 21 meters, the same as the Mosasaurus - for the sake of variety and simple coolness factor.

I was willing to just ignore this and pass it off as it being S. popularis, but looking into what dig site its fossils in the game are extracted from, I discovered something - its in-game dig site is the Pardonet Formation in British Columbia. Shonisaurus popularis remains have not been found here, it's only known from Nevada - however, S. sikanniensis is known from there. Connecting the dots, the Shonisaurus in the Prehistoric Marine Species Pack is Shonisaurus (or Shastasaurus) sikanniensis, and as such, it is way, way too small.

I think it would be wonderful if the Shonisaurus could be upscaled from 15 meters to 21 meters, or even more if exaggeration would be welcome (perhaps 25+ meters is overkill?). Even ignoring the whole S. sikanniensis deal, making it larger would certainly make for more dramatic imagery. I'm not sure exactly how complicated scaling it up would be in execution, and it would probably necessitate changing its stats and how other animals perceive it, but at least in my opinion, I think it would be worth it.

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Shonisaurus looks alright to me. It is it's accurate size. 1 metre high & 15 metres in length.

 

[Dinotracker]

Shonisaurus looks alright to me. It is it's accurate size. 1 metre high & 15 metres in length.

The Model of our new Shonisaurus just looks beautiful in the Lagoons and the Skins are some of the best of all JWE II Sepcies !
But it is more like 2 m high & 12 -13 m Long . That´s on the smal Side for shonisaurus. 15m would be perfect for S.popularis and 20m for S. Sikaniensis ( aka Shastasaurus).
Our Modell looks more like a nice version of S.popularis and so 15m would be the right size for a full grown one.
The Size wouldn´t be that much of a problem for me, but with 15m it could be big enough to get some time an animation for the sharkfeeder .
Here are two picturea for Size Comparison.

 

[Dinotracker]

If we never get an Animation of the teethless Shonisaurus to use the Sharkfeeder, than I would be happy if The Biggest known Carnivores Ichthyiosaurs would come some day ingame .
This animal hat a much more robust build skull with sharp teeth for hunting Really Big prey .
We know for shure that it hunted smaller Marine Reptiles and there is a really nice Docu with Sir David Attenborough that gives a good impression of its size ( 10-12m).
It is the Temnodontosaurus !

 

[Jurassic Tyrant King]

Shonisaurus was 40.ft-50.ft long so it's size in the game is pretty accurate. Basically around the size of the humpback whale the only species that is super sized and the same size as the blue whale is pretty much shastasaurus which possibly reach 75 to 80 ft long. Anyway now that we have a super-sized ichthyosaur in the game I'm actually hoping that the species of sea dragon, Temnodontosaurus will be considered as a medium species to be added.

 

[TheMightyMegalosaurus]

The stats may say 15 meters but Shonisaurus is only a couple of meters shorter than the 25m Mosasaurus, so it's actually oversized at Shastasaurus' length of 21.5 meters. It took the second-largest marine animal spot from Tylosaurus.