The unpublished plates of by Alcide d'Orbigny (1802 - 1857). 🇬🇧🇫🇷
The dawn of 🔬
Coll. des planches et des mots :🐚
https://t.co/o9AGET4NMS

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PSA: Some of my makes for some spicy reaction pics... these ones are on the house
(feat. Cotylorhynchus, Leedsichthys, Hypuronector & Leaellynasaura)

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Paleontologists Discover 518 Million-Year-Old Fossil Site in China
https://t.co/An17rcgjVq

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Today marks the 1-year anniversary of when I 1st shared my on social media! The inaugural Instagram post was of the nektobenthic Paleozoic cephalopod Aphetoceras, so I thought I'd recreate it:

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Camarasaurus lentus, one of the most common and well-known sauropod dinosaurs. Probably not much to say that you don't already know.

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On to Teraterpeton itself. The elongated skull is the most eye-catching feature, esp compared to its relatives. Interestingly, the big hole in the snout was likely an external narial fenestra. Thus, the nostrils were much farther back than in others.

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My most detailed entry into the Proboscidea series was the American mastodon. I painted as much of the fur as possible. https://t.co/PhJrTVUk21

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Palaeoloxodon falconeri is a great example of the crazy size disparity that can occur within the same genus. I didn't know this extreme was possible for mammals https://t.co/x52Tj8s0aH

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Aaand the biggest proboscidean ever, the massive Palaeoloxodon namadicus. This one I can really hear the elephant-like rumble every time I look at it. https://t.co/rL3HgZ2cs0

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216-Million-Year-Old Microfossils Represent North America’s Earliest Frog
https://t.co/QKGNtlabT0

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Spinosuchus was probably similar in size to Trilophosaurus, although as you can see its tall neural spines give its back a raised hump/sail and less of the lean, iguana-like silhouette.

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I also went with a similar coloration scheme, with a striped face and patterning along the upper half of the body on a yellow-green "base". There's a possibility Spinosuchus was arboreal like its close relative, but either way I think this coloration fits.

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