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For #SundayFishSketch "postage stamp" theme, I imagined a stamp from (Naabeehó Bináhásdzo) Navajo Nation. The reservation has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the US, a kind of genocide by neglect. You can help here: https://t.co/OZiGrnZbYr
@FishGuyKai Two-fer: the Triassic holostean Icarealcyon is named after both Icarus and Alcyone because the describer thought it might be able to fly. #MythologyInTaxonomy
If Onchopristis wore shades, would it wear them
like this or like this?
The giant #Onchopristis (Sclerorhynchidae) wasn't just a scaled-up version of a modern sawfish (Pristidae). It's also pretty unlikely that it was as boldly patterned as I made it here, but it was fun. #SundayFishSketch #PaleoArt #SciArt
Here's the original. Icarealcyon had long proximal fin ray segments and many short, ramifying distal segments, which makes me think it could have expanded its fins like a comet (Calloplesiops) or Betta. But this was a holostean, probably on the bowfin stem. About 20 cm SL.
For #SundayFishSketch them of #NewYearsResolutions, here's #Griphognathus, a Devonian #lungfish.
[image: lungfish emerging from pond; text says "Devonian lungfish Griphognathus resolves to get out more."]
For theme "things that burrow," here's #Tethymyxine tapirostrum, the Cretaceous hagfish described last week. Here it's burrowing into the bloated belly of a mosasaur by tying itself in a knot. Colored pencil on illustration board. #SundayFishSketch