Elisandre Ardeo (@elisandre.bsky.social)さんのイラストまとめ

Manatee and American Crocodile doing a little boop
📸Travis Ramsey

For #FossilFriday here's the reptiles of Messel Pit exhibit at Senckenburg Museum in Frankfurt

Photos from Markus Buhler and the museum's website respectively

We can even tell how exactly this was done with the cranial damage that likely was done to kill the mummified crocodiles in Porcier(2019). Additionally the gastric contents were preserved as figured in the same paper including insects, fish, and small mammals.

Reminder that ancient Egyptians mummified Sacred Crocodiles(C.suchus) as part of their worship to Sobek, generally associated with the Nile. Priests were even aware of the difference between the sympatric C.niloticus and C.suchus centuries before being officially recognized.

I am very weird and again I don't exactly relate to all of these completely but just vibe with them https://t.co/97v7U5IeCN

I've been looking into Rhamphosuchus and it's cranial anatomy just fascinates me, especially those humongous nares.

Another piece is a beautiful diorama of the Ellisdale ecosystem by Connor Ashbridge which is a member of the lower Marshalltown formation in New Jersey and the main part of the blogpost