Kiersten Formoso, PhD(ying)さんのイラストまとめ

So there's an anatomy fact that makes me very uncomfortable and I want you all to suffer with me.

Your facial artery is a very squiggly artery that runs through your cheek, meaning every time you open your mouth wide or puff your cheeks out you stretch the artery.

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It's #WorldLizardDay!!!

Obviously, my favorite lizards are mosasaurs. I'm particularly fond of Plotosaurus, having the opportunity to work with its fossils here on the West Coast. It's quite the fishy boi possessing highly aquatic morphology compared to other mosasaurs.

Apparently it's #MosasaurWeek!

Here is Plotosaurus, one of my fav mosasaurs and one of my research subjects.

Formerly Kolposaurus, but turns out the name was taken, Plotosaurus is a really unique mosasaur in that it has exceedingly derived aquatic characters. The fishy boi.

When a mosquito bites me in my own apartment

I'm in whale mode right now for research, so gonna share one of my favorites for #FossilFriday-- Remingtonocetus. Sounds very proper, I would absolutely have tea with Remingtonocetus (named for Remington Kellogg). It's a freshwater or coastal, early whale from the Middle Eocene.

I missed #MosasaurMonday, but I'm going to cheat with #TylosaurusTuesday.

Something that became striking to me recently is that mosasaurs ascribed to the genus Tylosaurus have an incredibly long temporal range.

Coniacian to the Maastrichtian

That's like 22 million years.

Here to start drama in the late night

For #MosasaurMonday, check out this Globidens, a unique-toothed, inferred shell-crushing mosasaur, compared to the Nile Monitor, a known opportunist that sometimes eats shellfish.

Nile Monitor figure: D'Amore, 2015. J Anat.
Globidens jaw figure: Mike Everhart. Oceans of Kansas

What's your favorite Ceratopsian based on skull ornamentation?

I'm still an incredible sucker for Styracosaurus.

Eager for everyone's answers because lemme tell you I'm not nearly as fresh on my dinos as I once was, & there are some awesome ceratopsians I didn't have as a kid.