Today's marine reptile artwork is "Cretaceous Jaws," an acrylic painting from 2001; featuring Cretoxyrhina (top left), an adult Tylosaurus (top right), two Squalicorax (bottom right), and a juvenile Tylosaurus (middle left).

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Examining the mouth of the new for 2026 CollectA Age of Dinosaurs Popular Tylosaurus (T. proriger) model. This figure has pterygoid teeth, a glottis, a forked tongue and a tongue sheath.

Accurate details on a #Tylosaurus model.

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High tide comes as a blessing for Shipwreck, who is in a very tight spot right now. Literally. In her temararious attempt to catch a much smaller mosasaur, she pursued it right into a small, shallow lagoon. Her prey then scooted back into open water just as the tide went out, leaving Shipwreck effectively trapped. For the past twelve hours, she has been languishing on the sandy bottom, […]

It's marine reptile Wednesday!

Here is an old acrylic painting from 2021, depicting a Cretoxyrhina (shark, top left), two Squalicorax (sharks, bottom right), and two Tylosaurus (juvenile left, adult right). This was a private commission.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A zoom into one of my Western Interior Seaway illustrations from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Mike Benton. Featured are two Triceratops crossing a waterway with two curious and hungry Tylosaurus.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's one of my Western Interior Seaway illustrations from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by @princetonupress). Featured are two Triceratops crossing a waterway with two curious and hungry Tylosaurus.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A few crops from my lurking Platecarpus painting, from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA (I supplied them with four murals and three illustrations for graphics boards).

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

One last Platecarpus painting, from the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA (I supplied them with four murals and three illustrations for graphics boards).

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A photo taken during the installation of the mosasaur half of my large Western Interior Seaway mural (2021), for Children's Museum of Indianapolis, USA.

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