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Philoceratops [2018-01-15 03:54:14 +0000 UTC]
One little nitpick of mine: fossil evidence points to Platecarpus specifically having banded flippers, as well as amber eyes. Yup, a color study was done on this guy!
also I have the pleasure of seeing the actual fossil
which is complete, and also has skin impressions
and a preserved trachea
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vasix In reply to Philoceratops [2018-08-10 08:16:21 +0000 UTC]
COLOR STUDY??? WHEEEN???? I mean the only mosasaur color study I know of was the one involving a leatherback turtle, Stenopterygius and Tylosaurus nepaeolicus...so...I am not familiar with the Platecarpus one
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TroodonVet [2017-12-09 12:52:50 +0000 UTC]
rip fishy...
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ThalassoAtrox [2017-12-09 03:01:21 +0000 UTC]
Nice work, very cool and atmospheric.
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Evodolka [2017-12-08 19:25:42 +0000 UTC]
i actually wonder, do we know how deep mosasaurs could dive?
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Yutyrannus In reply to Evodolka [2017-12-09 17:42:29 +0000 UTC]
There's actually an upcoming paper working on trying to figure out the diving depths of various mosasaur taxa
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sm-forrester In reply to Evodolka [2017-12-08 19:43:58 +0000 UTC]
IIRC, normally mosasaurs were more surface predators, but they did have the ability to go just above/into the area of the sea where sunlight just can't penetrate (Aphotic zone: about 200m below sea level.). Hunting a few metres above the aphotic zone, with a rather limited amount of sunlight reaching the water, would be easier as the animal is concealed by shadows. That's the depth of the Platecarpus and Gillicus are in this picture. I don't know what depth would actually seriously harm them however, but they probably wouldn't even go near it seeing they liked the shallows much better.
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Evodolka In reply to sm-forrester [2017-12-08 20:20:05 +0000 UTC]
ok so they were shallow sea goers but they had the ability to dive a little bit
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Evodolka In reply to sm-forrester [2017-12-09 01:58:10 +0000 UTC]
i was going to say like whale sharks, i think those aren't deep sea
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