Mammals have one jaw bone: the dentary. However, the reptile jaw is made up of many bones. Some of these bones disappeared through mammal evolution, some evolved for new uses. The reptile articular is the same bone as the malleus in the mammal ear.
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#mosasaurmonday We've found boatloads of marine mammal fossils on several coastlines, but we've never found any mosasaur teeth until we were out collecting on the grand strand coastline last summer.
finished an animation on a mosasaur for both #FossilFriday and #MosasaurMonday program i used is #SFM #SourceFilmmaker
My first PhD paper is out today! π #MosasaurMonday
Using measurements from 3D models we reconstructed patterns of skull evolution in mosasaurs and early cetaceans and found a number of examples of incomplete convergence!
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Platecarpus display breaching.
Preliminary sketch from a while back. Currently working on a more detailed version.
Happy #MosasaurMonday !
Not sure if you guys noticed, but last week, a 2nd season of #PrehistoricPlanet dropped?? Mosasaurs are featured in *3* of the 5 episodes, including 3 named taxa, 2 of them new! Overall, their portrayal is much better than in S1, imo... 1/7
Reposting an older project on yet ANOTHER social platform, because why not? My skeletal reconstruction of Mosasaurus hoffmannii: artstation.com/artwork/ELqmnv #MosasaurMonday #Mosasaurus
Happy #MosasaurMonday !
Meet Mosasaurus hoffmannii IRScNB R 303. It is one of the most immaculately preserved Mosasaurus skulls we have; check out that near-perfect palate!! It even has both vomeronasal fenestrae - the openings used by the forked tongue to 'taste smells.'
