Day 4 - Longisquama

~ A small reptile from the Mid or Late Triassic, Longisquama is characterized by long feather-like filaments on its back. These were most likely for sexual display or just something common with the species.

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Like the band playing on the deck of the Titanic I will post Dinovembers on here as long as I can. Here we have Guizhouichthyosaurus from the Triassic, of which one individual died with the remains of a large thalattosaur in its stomach. It bit off more than it can chew...

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Another wonder from the Lower when the earth was still recovering from the great mortality. was a marine reptile with an armor of osteoderms on the upper part of its back, something very rare in marine reptiles.

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Okay so. I CLEARLY like marine reptiles from the Triassic, like the moonlight Cymbospondylus youngorum...I also CLEARLY am a pliosaur fan...because Sachica and Rhom (LOVE early Jurassic marine demons heehee) OH YEAH MICROCLEIDUS. Creepy little shit.

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If I had a nickle for every time South America (aka the best continent ever) had a giant, quadrupedal, apex predator crocodile, then I'd have two nickles, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
First Triassic, then Eocene.
(art by and )

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MESOZOIC BESTIARY. Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous animals in a medieval-ish style. Available at Redbubble

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On the very roots of the early Sauropterygians came out Bobosaurus, a genus of Pistosaur from the very Early Late Triassic, this marine reptile had peculiar anatomical features including tall neural spines and its elongated fins which differs greatly from any of its successors

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Silesaurus opolensis was a herbivorous osauriform from the Late Triassic, around 230 million years ago.

(Credit Petrified Forest)

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Could dinosaurs experience joy? It's something we'll never know, but I'd like to think they did. For we have Silesaurus, a genus of silesaurid dinosauriform from the Late Triassic, approximately 230 million years ago.

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Lystrosaurus. Late Permian–Early Triassic, 255–250 million years. Herbiverous Dicynodont (two tusks). Art by Maurice Wilson.

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New chapter in the Encyclopedia of Geology explaining early archosauromorph reptiles from the Permian & Triassic, written by Martin Ezcurra & Adriel Gentil of with contributions from & me. Message me if you need the PDF.

https://t.co/va8EWICYcH

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Sketch. Long before crocodilians appeared, there were various groups of reptiles trying very similar body plans. Among them was Litorosuchus (Middle Triassic, China), a 2 m long, semiaquatic archosaurifom related to the odd Late Triassic Vancleavea

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Phytosaurs are crocodile-like reptiles known from from lake and river deposits worldwide. Their fossils are abundant in the Late Triassic, particularly from Germany and the southwest USA. Image by Jeff Martz. (2/n)

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It’s and here is a WIP I’m working on of a Proterosuchus which just captured a young Lystrosaurus at an Early Triassic, South African river bank. Will it consume it in the water or on land? Many details to be refined but it is getting there.

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For a short time, during the earliest Triassic, some parts of the world belonged to the Here for I have reconstructed the large-sized Moschorhinus. It is defending its recent kill, a Lystrosaurus, from a group of Tetracynodon

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More My slightly revised version of Eudimorphodon ranzii, a basal pterosaur from the Late Triassic, Zorzino Fm 🇮🇹

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Also for here is Asilisaurus kongwe, a silesaurid dinosauriform from the Mnda Beds, Triassic, Tanzania

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Nothosaurus giganteus. The Triassic, far toothier version of a seal! Besano Fm, about 6 m long. Look at that mouth! 😱

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BIG announcement about future project later TODAY. Meanwhile, this is Prolacerta, Fremouw Fm, Triassic, Antarctica

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Triassic, Jurassic & Cretaceous era giants return in Age of Dinosaurs. Free pack: https://t.co/Rvoyzsh0VP

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