Amelia R. Zietlow 🦎さんのイラストまとめ

When we took the display glass off Tylosaurus @AMNH 2 weeks ago, we also photographed the drop-dead gorgeous #painting that accompanies it, in addition to studying the #fossil! Stunning to behold up close...
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#mosasaurus #paleoart
🎨 C Knight, 1899
📷 M Ellison, N Wong

Modified my favorite figure ahead of #Paleofest2022 next week @BurpeeMuseum...😉🦎👑
#Mosasaurus #Trex

Second, the dentaries (tooth-bearing bones of the lower jaw) are relatively short compared to other mosasaurs (i.e., Tylosaurus), much like in today’s shell-crushing lizards, incl. the caiman lizard (Dracaena) & Nile monitor (Varanus)!
📷 @AMNH specimens
📄 LeBlanc et al. 2019

First day in ~2 weeks that I haven't felt like my brain's in a blender (thank you, Mystery Illness™) - relaxed by building up a folder of lovely #paleoart for future #MosasaurMonday posts! 🦎💕
Gnathomortis @HBivittatus
Tylosaurus @arvalis
Latoplatecarpus @Paleoartologist

Happy #FossilFriday!

This dynamic Dryptosaurus display @NJStateMuseum is based on Charles Knight's 1897 painting "Leaping Laelaps," one of the first depictions of dinosaurs as fast, active animals!

The name "Tylosaurus" itself references the rostrum, meaning "knob-lizard," as does the name of the type species (the first one named), T. proriger: "proriger" = "prow-bearing."

📷Cope 1870; T. proriger holotype @MCZpaleo 4374
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When the skeleton was first described, the tracheal cartiliage was misidentified as a dorsal (=on-the-back) fringe, which you can see in CR Knight's reconstructions of Tylosaurus in the 1899 paper & accompanying FR221 on display @AMNH (& @FieldMuseum's P15144!)
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