# paleontology fossils paleoart tylosaurustuesday

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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2022-01-07

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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2021-09-07

A curious Mosasaur for 🤍

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2021-06-29

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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2021-06-08

Oh, look. It's I confess, I have always had as weakness for Heinrich Harder's incredibly weird 1912 pairing of a bizarrely long-necked, frilled ?tylosaurine with two ichthyosaurs and their exposed paddle bones. It's almost surrealism.

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2021-03-16

And now for some This time around a Tylosaurus, my favorite mosasaur, attacking a Pteranodon. Classic...poor pterosaur. Art by , beautiful work as always.

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2021-03-09

I missed but I'm going to cheat with

Something that became striking to me recently is that mosasaurs ascribed to the genus Tylosaurus have an incredibly long temporal range.

Coniacian to the Maastrichtian

That's like 22 million years.

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2020-04-29

For check out this Globidens, a unique-toothed, inferred shell-crushing mosasaur, compared to the Nile Monitor, a known opportunist that sometimes eats shellfish.

Nile Monitor figure: D'Amore, 2015. J Anat.
Globidens jaw figure: Mike Everhart. Oceans of Kansas

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2020-02-04