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@Philoceratops I drew some Kem Kem fish instead of dinosaurs for once, here are some close-ups of that one piece.
Axelrodichthys, a polypterid and a holostean respectively. There are also some small fishes here and there, namely Serenoichthys kemkemensis and Spinocaudichthys oumtkoutensis.
The nasal crest (along with other skull bones) is also slightly different. Making it even more certain that the pictures I posted yesterday are of the Spinosaurus neotype crest.
(WIP of the 2020 skeletal is left, final 2020 skeletal is on the right)
https://t.co/l4qvxcRStt
They also seemed to have colored in the neural arch of cervical vertebra 10. They might have removed it because it turned out to not be what they initially thought or they had doubts and removed it to avoid inaccuracy.
The old version indicates they found the neural spine of the axis sometime after 2015. They either removed it because it turned out to not be the axis spine, or they are waiting to publish it later.
A 2020 Spinosaurus press release video showed a skeletal reconstruction (left) that differs slightly from the paper (right). It has some bones that were absent or moved in the final recon. It is obviously inaccurate now. But I'll point out some stuff I noticed in this THREAD
Here are some enigmatic pictures of the Spinosaurus neotype nasal crest. (Right lateral and ventral view)
I can't wait to see what interesting things the neotype skull material will tell us once that finally gets described.
@Philoceratops @fishboy86164577 @LikesPterosaurs I was so weirded out when I discovered hadrosaur crests were built like this. The most posterior skull bone of Corythosaurus is the nasal, what???
(Skeletal by @LordTrilobite )
@Mosasaurologist It seems longer/thinner too. I don't suppose much is published about tyrannosaur head ontogeny? Although a very small tyrannosaurid dentary was described last year.