#phytosaur

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2024-07-01

#Zimbabwe’s new #dinosaur discovery: inside the find theconversation.com/zimbabwes- paper: app.pan.pl/article/item/app011

"From the houseboat, we used small boats to reach shore and to navigate the sinuous inlets heading inland... we quickly found new material, including the teeth, jaw bones and armour plates of a crocodile-like aquatic predator called a #phytosaur... We also found #lungfish teeth and #dinosaur bones... these #fossils were deposited in an ancient freshwater #swamp"

simple black and white drawing of a long-necked dinosaur
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2023-08-09

Fossilized feces found to be infested with #parasites from more than 200 million years ago phys.org/news/2023-08-fossiliz

First discovery of #parasite eggs in a vertebrate #coprolite of the Late #Triassic in Thailand journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

"The coprolite is cylindrical in shape and more than 7cm long. Based on its shape and contents, the researchers suggest it was likely produced by some species of #phytosaur, #crocodile-like #predators which are also known from this #fossil locality."

a collection of fossils
2023-04-16

A marine phytosaur and a derived thalattosaur swimming together through Early Jurassic waters.

These are speculative creatures inspired by a pasage from @TetZoo’s new book Ancient Sea Reptiles. Learn more about them here: manospondylus.com/2023/04/spec

#marinereptile #MarineReptiles #phytosaur #thalattosaur #fossil #fossils #paleontology #paleoart #MastoArt #art #stippling #stipplingart #SpeculativeEvolution #crocodile

A phytosaur to the left, resembling a mix between a crocodile and a river dolphin. To the right a serpentine, hook-jawed thalattosaur which has lost its arms and only retains paddle-like legs
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺animalculum@scholar.social
2023-03-09

#Fossils of Giant Phytosaur Unearthed in India sci.news/paleontology/colossos

A giant phytosaur (Diapsida, #Archosauria) from the Upper Triassic of India with new insights on phytosaur migration, endemism and extinction onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10

#Colossosuchus techniensis roamed our planet during the Upper #Triassic epoch, between 235 and 208 million years ago. The ancient animal was a type of #phytosaur (family #Phytosauridae), an extinct group of large, mostly semiaquatic #crocodile-like reptiles.

Life reconstruction of a phytosaur species called Protome batalaria.
2022-11-19

Look at this basking Rutiodon, with a tiny Tanytrachelos perched on its head. A scene from Late Triassic North America

This is an illustration I did several years ago in 2019 and that currently appears in the new book “Mesozoic Art”, published last month. where I am featured alongside many other amazing #paleoartists

#phytosaur #paleoart #illustration #art #digitalart #digitalartist

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