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

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Tylomon
(Tylosaurus)
Ocean Dragon
Attacks:
Torpedo Attack
Terror Plankton
Hydro Wave

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The Western Interior Seaway divided North America during the Cretaceous and was host to an array of creatures including and

Design by

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I think it’s specifically Tylosaurus too lol. I never forget a classic

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A Tylosaurus relentlessly swims away from the Manson impact 75 mya in the Western Interior Seaway.

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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)!
📷 specimens
📄 LeBlanc et al. 2019

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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 for future posts! 🦎💕
Gnathomortis
Tylosaurus
Latoplatecarpus

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Isn't it crazy that despite Mosasaurus being the most famous mosasaur, Tylosaurus has gotten wayyy more exposure over the years.

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a mating pair of Styxosaurus help each other disassemble their meal - a juvenile Tylosaurus - while the fishes of the western interior seaway swarm the moonlit waters

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Tylomon
(Tylosaurus)
Ocean Dragon
Attacks:
Torpedo Attack
Terror Plankton
Hydro Wave

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Ta-da, please say hi to Evan, the Tylosaurus, an excellent hunter in the sea. The online sale of this model will be available from PNSO Amazon (US) and PNSO AliExpress soon.
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Hittin' the hot (brine) springs: Styxosaurus excitedly rambles on about his workday with coworker Tylosaurus as an elderly Archelon listens in.

Tylosaurus just wants to relax.

Another CSP test: I wanted to try something 'softer' and I guess it turned out okay.

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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 4374

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Just a couple of seaway buddies - Tylosaurus and Dolichorhynchops!

Made this weeks ago after my first visit to the Sternberg Museum (but couldn't post due to lack of Internet service) as a quick CSP brush test; I usually color in GIMP but I figured I should actually learn CSP.

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The reason I think Tylosaurus is seriously far more EPIC than any other mosasaur can be summed up with a ton of older art that features it as the all-encompassing leviathan of the Western Interior Seaway and now we find that even big mosasaurs could vibe upriver! Missing paleoart

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Tylomon
(Tylosaurus)
Ocean Dragon
Attacks:
Torpedo Attack
Terror Plankton
Hydro Wave

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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 (& 's P15144!)

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Finally finished with the Jurassic Park Telltale game mosasaur / tylosaurus! It’s such a unique design and I love the entire aquarium part of the game.

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