Liopleurodon

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Scientific name	Liopleurodon ferox
Home era	Late Jurassic period
Creature type	Pliosaur
Deaths caused	Michael Mackey Crew of the Cormant One Swimming Raptor
Appearances	The Lost Island Episode 5.2

Liopleurodon is a large marine reptile.

1 Description
2 In Primeval
- 2.1 The Lost Island
- 2.2 Episode 5.2
3 Trivia
4 Errors

DescriptionEdit

In the series it is portrayed to be far larger animal than in real life. They may live in pods of three or so, generally not attacking one another. When confronting other large objects in the water, they will react aggressively by ramming and biting. They have been witnessed to rub their bodies along smaller objects to try and get a reaction to see if the object is alive before eating. If the object is moving, however, they take it for food and will devour it immediately. These animals are bullet-resistant but must live in warm conditions, since they come from the tropical seas of the Jurassic period. They are known to eat swimming dinosaurs that are crossing between islands in the ocean.

In PrimevalEdit

The Lost IslandEdit

It came through one of the anomalies in the Spaghetti Junction on Guns Island. It starts off sinking a trawler boat in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Ireland, at Guns Island, and it is later encountered by the ARC team in the water. It seems heavily resistant to bullets, but when the team discover it, it is dying from the cold conditions of the Atlantic winter.

Episode 5.2Edit

While on a Nuclear Submarine, a Liopleurodon bites down on a tracking device and slams into the sub, jamming the propeller. When the sub went through the anomaly, the Pliosaur followed, and attacked the sub with two other Liopluerodons. Then, they attacked again while the team tried going into the anomaly back into the present. The captured Swimming Theropod is pumped into the water where it is decapitated by the Liopluerodon, distracting the Pliosaur from the sub.

TriviaEdit

This is the largest creature to appear in Primeval. It is also the largest sea creature to be encountered.
Liopleurodon is the first aquatic reptile that has not killed a human in the episodes.
This is the first aquatic animal shown to kill a dinosaur.
This is also the first animal that was seen in a novel before its first episode. The second is Tyrannosaurus. Both appeared in Season 5.
In Walking with Dinosaurs, the Liopluerodon was shown to preform whale-like behavior, such as going after prey on the shore (i.e Eustreptospondylus fishing) and this is shown to a new extreme in Primeval. The pliosaur is shown swimming like a whale, even swimming in pods, and ganging up on their prey by bashing themselves on it.
This is the second marine reptile to appear in Primeval.
Liopluerodon previously appeared in Walking with Dinosaurs and Chased by Sea Monsters.
There is a possibility that the giant skull in Nick Cutter's office is a Liopluerodon skull.
It's name means "smooth-sided tooth".
A figure of Liopluerodon or a different type of pliosaur can be seen in Ben Trent's room.
This is the last creature to return to its home era and live.

ErrorsEdit

Primeval's Liopleurodon is far larger than the real animal.
- With the extreme size of the pliosaur it could be Predator X and errorneously called Liopleurodon.
- Also as it is identified as a Pliosaur, it could be a fictional undiscovered species.
They also have ridges down their backs like a leatherback turtle's.
Along with this, they have differently-shaped heads and larger eyes.
These Liopleurodon are shown to swim differently than a real Liopleurodon would, as they move their bodies up-and-down like an aquatic mammal would, instead of moving it's front and back flippers up-and-down alternately.
It is highly unlikely that Pliosaurs like Liopluerodon hunted in packs as they would most likely turn on each other.
Lots of errors have suggested this creature is not really a Liopleurodon and is just another species of Pliosaur or even an unknown species of Pliosaur.