You can support the Dinosaur Toy Forum by making dino-purchases through these links to Ebay and Amazon. Disclaimer: these and other links to Ebay.com and Amazon.com on the Dinosaur Toy Forum are often affiliate links, so when you make purchases through them we may make a commission.

avatar_Halichoeres

Reconstructing Phosphorosaurus

Started by Halichoeres, February 17, 2019, 02:40:06 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages1
User actions

Halichoeres

February 17, 2019, 02:40:06 PM
This team used the 2015 description of the holotype of Phosphorosaurus, comparison with other mosasaurs, and a little bit of fill-in from monitor lizards, along with modeling software, to reconstruct it in three dimensions. This is interesting because paleontologists often don't care very much about this sort of thing.


Coloration is influenced by the coelacanth, based on the interpretation of Phosphorosaurus as a mid-sized nocturnal predator.

Let's hope Favorite and Kaiyodo get a look at this.

Paper is open access: http://www.town.mukawa.lg.jp/secure/5408/Shinmura_Konishi_2018.pdf
In the kingdom of the blind, better take public transit. Well, in the kingdom of the sighted, too, really--almost everyone is a terrible driver.

My attempt to find the best toy of every species

My trade/sale/wishlist thread

Sometimes I draw pictures
Print
Go Up Pages1
User actions