Extant Mosasaur Lad from Pompey

[TethysaurusUK]

So I'm a Master's Palaeontology Student from the University of Portsmouth, UK. I have just finished a 3 year Bsc Hons Course in Palaeontology and I am continuing under the same University and same supervisor. I specialise in Mosasaurs particularly (but I am looking to expand to other marine reptiles and squamata). My final year project was on the Moroccan basal mosasauridae Tethysaurus nopcsai, which is criminally underrepresented and understudied which is what I intend to correct in my Master's. Favourite dinosaur is Carcharodontosaurus saharicus and favorite mosasaur is Prognathodon sp. (Moroccan Phosphates).

[BlueKrono]

Welcome to the group. I specialize in collecting prehistoric marine reptiles. It would be cool if they made a Tethysaurus figure!

[indohyus]

Welcome! Were you taught be David Martill? He still as nuts as always?

[TethysaurusUK]

Welcome! Were you taught be David Martill? He still as nuts as always?

Yeah! I'm ever grateful to him because he let me go to Morocco with him in order to collect/buy material for my final year project. He is so unfiltered, which I bloody love haha

[TethysaurusUK]

Welcome to the group. I specialize in collecting prehistoric marine reptiles. It would be cool if they made a Tethysaurus figure!

I would love to consult on the making of a model. I would love a Prognathodon and Globidens figure as well.

[indohyus]

Welcome! Were you taught be David Martill? He still as nuts as always?

Yeah! I'm ever grateful to him because he let me go to Morocco with him in order to collect/buy material for my final year project. He is so unfiltered, which I bloody love haha

He is an amazing bloke! Was great on the Germany trip I went on. He was my tutor for my final year.

[TethysaurusUK]

 I think I've become one of his favourites hahaha. Yeah we didn't get to go to Germany this unfortunately. I think eventually I'll go independently.

[indohyus]

I think I've become one of his favourites hahaha. Yeah we didn't get to go to Germany this unfortunately. I think eventually I'll go independently.

Worth it. Great number of lagerstatten there.

[DinoToyForum]

Welcome @TethysaurusUK.

I'm another University of Portsmouth alumni. I was lucky enough to attend the Germany/Austria field trip and even found an ichthyosaur tooth in Holzmaden! Dave Martill found a complete ichthyosaur, of course. The last time I saw Dave was when I hosted him and a group of his student at the Dinosaurs of China exhibition in Nottingham.

I'm also a palaeontologist who works on marine reptiles (plesiosaurs) so I'll probably see you around!

[indohyus]

I graduated in 2015. Currently trying to get into museums. We found most of an Ichthyosaur on the Germany trip (minus the head, we fear that's where the explosives were placed). I found part of the rib cage.

[Halichoeres]

Welcome to the forum! I am but a lowly neontologist.

[Shonisaurus]

@TethysaurusUK Welcome to the forum. On the other hand, I would like both globidens and prognathodon to be more represented in the world of adult collecting (resin dinosaurs or Prognathodon) or toy collecting (PVC, vinyl and rubber, I think there is life beyond the mosasaurus by JW / JP.

On the other hand, I am glad that you are a connoisseur and expert in paleontology, being an ignorant person, in my case about everything related to science, it is enriching for me to have contacts with DTF members who know about this most interesting subject.

[triceratops83]

Hello and welcome! But I have to admit I was still half asleep when I noticed this thread and misinterpreted it as Extant Mosasaur (nicknamed "Lad") from Pompeii and got a little over excited.

[TethysaurusUK]

I graduated in 2015. Currently trying to get into museums. We found most of an Ichthyosaur on the Germany trip (minus the head, we fear that's where the explosives were placed). I found part of the rib cage.

Oh yeah I remember Martill mentioning something about that. Any idea what taxon it represented?

[TethysaurusUK]

@TethysaurusUK Welcome to the forum. On the other hand, I would like both globidens and prognathodon to be more represented in the world of adult collecting (resin dinosaurs or Prognathodon) or toy collecting (PVC, vinyl and rubber, I think there is life beyond the mosasaurus by JW / JP.

On the other hand, I am glad that you are a connoisseur and expert in paleontology, being an ignorant person, in my case about everything related to science, it is enriching for me to have contacts with DTF members who know about this most interesting subject.

Thanks! While I do appreciate the comments, I am only a Master's student. So not an expert as such but working my way up there. I think CollectA would be a good option of taking on the mosasaurs.

[TethysaurusUK]

Welcome @TethysaurusUK.

I'm another University of Portsmouth alumni. I was lucky enough to attend the Germany/Austria field trip and even found an ichthyosaur tooth in Holzmaden! Dave Martill found a complete ichthyosaur, of course. The last time I saw Dave was when I hosted him and a group of his student at the Dinosaurs of China exhibition in Nottingham.

I'm also a palaeontologist who works on marine reptiles (plesiosaurs) so I'll probably see you around!

Fantastic to hear! Yeah Dave does really have an eye for some of the better fossils, though I did find a small piece of pterosaur wing in a Kem Kem quarry at one point on my trip to Morocco with him. I could tell he was not happy hahah. I wish we could've gone to Germnay but yeah, the current circumstances. Apologies on behalf of the mosasaurs for occasionally munching on plesiosaurs, we were hungry hahaha.

[BlueKrono]

Welcome to the group. I specialize in collecting prehistoric marine reptiles. It would be cool if they made a Tethysaurus figure!

I would love to consult on the making of a model. I would love a Prognathodon and Globidens figure as well.

Well those are my top two right there. Globidens is my favorite. The only figures I know of are Maelstrom from Ice Age II. He's a little... rotund. It would be nice to get a decent model.

[TethysaurusUK]

I swear he was supposed to represent a pliosaur?

[Libraraptor]

I drag behind a little in greeting new members, which I hereby catch on.

So hello and welcome to the forum!